LEONARD KWOK KOU CHAN is the chair professor of Chinese literature and the director of the Research Center of Chinese Literature and Literary Culture at the Education University of Hong Kong. He specializes in literary historiography, classical Chinese literature, and Hong Kong literature. He is the chief editor of the twelve-volume Compendium of Hong Kong Literature 1919–1949 香港文學大系1919–1949 (2014–16). His other recent publications include Hong Kong Literature in Its History of Lyricism 香港的抒情史 (2016), Literature as Knowledge? Literary Criticism, Literary Studies 文學如何成為知識?——文學批評、文學研究與文學教育 (2013) and Modernity of Lyricism: Essays on Chinese Lyrical Tradition 抒情之現代性:「抒情傳統」論述與中國文學研究 (2014, coedited with David Der-wei Wang).
KANG-I SUN CHANG, the inaugural Malcolm G. Chace ’56 Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, is a scholar of classical Chinese literature with an interest in comparative studies of poetry, literary criticism, gender studies, and cultural theory/aesthetics. Born in Beijing, China, Chang attended schools in Taiwan before...