LARA C. W. BLANCHARD is Luce Professor of East Asian Art and Lloyd Wright Professor in Conservative Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York. Her interdisciplinary research interests include Chinese arts and literature, particularly gendered images, women artists, women patrons, text-image relationships, and theories of representation. She has published articles about pictorial arts—painting, woodblock printmaking, photography, and video—from the Song dynasty (960–1279) through the contemporary era. She is the author of Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire: Gender and Interiority in Chinese Painting and Poetry (2018).
MARAM EPSTEIN is a professor of late imperial Chinese literature at the University of Oregon. Her primary interests are xiaoshuo aesthetics, representations of gender, and histories of emotion. She is the author of Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction (2001) and Orthodox Passions: Narrating Filial Love during the High Qing (2019). She is currently...
