Gang Pan Author & Editor

Hsiao-wei Rupprecht is Associate Professor, Teaching Stream and Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. She holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has taught Chinese language and literature in North America, Germany, China and Taiwan for thirty years. Her publications include Language through Literature: An Advanced Reader of Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories (2010) and Departure and Return: Chang Hen-shui and the Chinese Narrative Tradition (1988).

Jianhua Shen holds an M.A. in Chinese and has taught Chinese in the United States since 2001. She is currently Senior Lector in Chinese at Yale University.

Gang Pan is Lecturer at York University in Toronto. He holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Studies, with a collaborative specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies, from the University of Toronto. His research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, narratology and semiotics. He teaches Chinese language, modern and pre-modern Chinese literature, modern Chinese drama, Chinese cinema and Chinese martial arts culture.

Yanfei Li is Lecturer at the University of Toronto. She holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto and a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies from Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, cultural studies of heritage and urban history. She teaches all levels of Chinese language, all genres of Chinese literature, contemporary Chinese film culture and urban cultural studies.

Yu Wen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include Chinese literature and culture, traditional Chinese poetics and aesthetics, and medieval Chinese poetry and prose. She currently teaches second-year Chinese.