Wai-yee Li

Wai-yee Li is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. She is the author of The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007) and Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014); cotranslator of Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan (University of Washington Press, 2016); and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE-900 CE) (Oxford University Press, 2017).