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About the Author
Paolo Santangelo is Professor Emeritus of East Asia history at Sapienza University of Roma, and Editor-in-Chief at Ming Qing Studies. His book publications include Sentimental Education in Chinese History: An Interdisciplinary Textual Research in Ming and Qing Sources; Materials for an Anatomy of Personality in Late Imperial China; Shan’ge, the “Mountain Songs”: Love Songs in Ming China (coauthored with Oki Yasushi); Zibuyu, “What the Master Would Not Discuss,” according to Yuan Mei (1716–1798): A Collection of Supernatural Stories (in cooperation with Yan Beiwen); Passion, Romance and Qing: The World of Emotions and States of Mind in Peony Pavilion (co-authored with Tian Yuan Tan); Revisiting Liaozhai zhiyi 聊齋誌異; and The Culture of Love in China and Europe (with Gábor Boros).