Qiancheng Li is author of Fictions of Enlightenment and Transmutations of Desire and editor of the Chinese variorum, critical edition of Further Adventures on the Journey to the West. Robert E. Hegel is Liselotte Dieckmann Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and emeritus professor of Chinese at Washington University, and author of The Novel in Seventeenth-Century China.
Qiancheng Li is associate professor of foreign language and literature at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Fictions of Enlightenment: "Journey to the West," "Tower of Mirrors," and "Dream of the Red Chamber" (University of Hawai'i Press, 2004) and the Chinese variorum edition of Further Adventures on the Journey to the West: Xiyou bu jiaozhu (Kunlun Chubanshe, 2011).
Robert E. Hegel is Liselotte Dieckmann Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Professor of Chinese at Washington University. He is the author of The Novel in Seventeenth-Century China (Columbia University Press, 1981); translator of True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories (University of Washington Press, 2009); and editor of Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection by Aina the Layman (University of Washington Press, 2017).
