Ping Wang is Associate Professor of Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests range from history of Chinese literature, early and medieval poetics, grammar and syntax of classical Chinese, and Sinological translation. She is the author of The Age of Courtly Writing: Wen xuan Compiler Xiao Tong (501-531) and His Circle (Brill, 2012) and the co-editor of Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry (Hong Kong, 2015). Ping is currently finishing a book-length study on Xie Lingyun (385-433).