Liu Zaifu is a noted contemporary Chinese critic. He has published more than thirty books, including scholarly works and collections of essays, and has served as the director of the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Stockholm and the University of Colorado. Some of his publications include A Biography of Lu Xun, Lu Xun and Natural Science, Lu Xun’s Aesthetics, The Theory of Character Organization, Farewell Gods, Twenty-Five Kinds of Men, and a five-volume series entitled Records of Exile. He is the co-author of Tradition and Chinese, Farewell Revolution, and Understanding Life Together. He is currently a Fellow at University of Colorado at Boulder and Honorary Professor at City University of Hong Kong.

About Shu Yunzhong

Shu Yunzhong is Associate Professor of Chinese at Queens College, City University of New York. He holds a PhD in Chinese literature from Columbia University. His publications include articles on contemporary Chinese fiction, China's image in Victorian literature, and the Chinese influence on contemporary American poets, Kenneth Rexroth and Gary Snyder.