Christopher Lupke (PhD, Cornell University) is associate professor of Chinese and Coordinator of Asian Languages at Washington State University. He concurrently served as the President of the Association for Chinese and Comparative Literature. Lupke has published two edited books: The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture (University of Hawai'i Press, 2005) and New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Recently, he has guest edited special theme issues of Positions and of JMLC. His forthcoming book Hou Hsiao-hsien is under contract with Cambria Press. He also has completed translations of Peng Ge's novel Setting Moon and Ye Shitao's A History of Taiwan Literature. [Translation]