Wai-yee Li
Professor
Chinese Literature
Harvard University
China
Biography
Education:Li earned her B.A. from the University of Hong Kong and her Ph.D. from Princeton University (1987), where she was associate professor from 1996 to 2000.
Research Interest
Li’s research spans topics ranging from early Chinese thought and narrative to late imperial Chinese literature and culture.
Publications
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The Problem of Genuineness in Li Zhi’s Writings,†in Writing, Virtue, and the Social World in Sixteenth Century China: Essays on Li Zhi, edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz and Pauline Lee.
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“Anecdotal Barbarians in Early China,†in Anecdotes in Early China, edited by Sarah Queen and Paul van Els. SUNY Press, forthcoming.
