About the Author

The three editors are members of the Department of East Asian Studies, The University of Arizona. Professor Emerita Marie Chan has published two monographs on T'ang poets, Kao Shih (1978) and Cen Shen (1983). In addition to Random Thoughts on Chinese Women (in Chinese, 1989) Professor Chia-lin Pao Tao has edited five volumes of Studies in Chinese Women's History (in Chinese). Professor Jing-shen Tao is the author of The Jurchen in Twelfth-century China: A Study of Sinicization (1976) and Two Sons of Heaven: Studies in Sung-Liao Relations (1988).