作者簡介

　　Pai Hsien-Yung is an internationally acclaimed author and the founder of Modern Literature magazine. He is generally considered among the greatest living stylists of Chinese fiction and prose. His publications include the collections of short stories Lonely Seventeen, Taipei People, and The New Yorker; the collection of prose writing Suddenly the Past; and the novel Crystal Boys. Professor Pai became a professor of Chinese literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1965, and retired in 1994. In recent years he has devoted his energy to the promotion of Chinese Kun opera to the world. He is the general producer and artistic director of the opera Peony Pavilion, which has toured China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the U.S.

Co-Translator

　　Patia Yasin is a translator of traditional Chinese and Japanese folk lyrics and modern Turkish poetry.

Editor

　　George Kao was a founding editor of the journal Renditions, published by the Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the co-editor with Irving K.Y. Kao of the New Dictionary of Idiomatic American English.