Books By Shangren Kong - Author

Kong Shangren (1648-1718) was a Qing dynasty dramatist and poet. He was a 64th-generation descendant of Confucius and had a distinguished career as a scholar-official. His fame rested largely on his authorship of The Peach Blossom Fan. Wai-yee Li is the 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. Her previous books include The Promise and Peril of Things, Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge, Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature, and, as co-editor with Wiebke Denecke and Xiaofei Tian, The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE-900 CE).