Mark Bender is professor of East Asian languages and literatures at Ohio State University. He is the author of Plum and Bamboo: China’s Suzhou Chantefable Tradition and translator of Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China. Aku Wuwu is a well-known poet and professor and associate dean of the College of Yi Studies, Southwest Nationalities University, Chengdu. Jjivot Zopqu is a local tradition-bearer in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan.
Aku Wuwu is professor and associate dean of the College of Yi Studies, Southwest Nationalities University, Chengdu. The best-known poet among the Nuosu, his work has been published in journals and edited volumes such as Manoa, Ratapallax, Cha, and Basalt. His collection of Nuosu- and Chinese-language poems, Tiger Traces, was published in a trilingual edition (Foreign Language Publications, Ohio State University, 2006).
Jjivot Zopqu is a local tradition-bearer in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan.
Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. His many books include Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China.
