Wai-yee Li
Professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University
Areas of expertise
- - Late imperial Chinese literature
- - Early Chinese thought and historiography
- - Gender and sexuality
- - Premodern fiction and drama
Major works
"Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature. Harvard University Asia Center, 2014.
The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography. Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature. Princeton University Press, 1993."