For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse

About the Author

Jiang Taowas born in Tianjin in 1970, and studied first at Tsinghua University, only to abandon biomedical engineering for a PhD in Chinese literature at Peking University, where he also began teaching in 2002. He wrote poetry as a student, and was editor of the folk poetry journalsOffsetandPoetry Communications. His first collectionBird Sutraswas published in 2005, and he has since publishedFour PoemsandMourning for Sometimes. He won the Liu Li'an Prize for Poetry in 1997.

Josh Stenbergis a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney.He is the author ofMinority Stages: Sino-Indonesian PerformanceandPublic Display(2019) and an upcoming book on Hokkien theatre, as well as the editor ofIrina's Hat: New Short Stories from China(2013) andKunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance(2022).He translated two volumes of short fiction by Nanjing author Su Tong, short fiction by PRC, Taiwanese, and Southeast Asian Chinese authors, and numerous works of spoken and traditional Chinese theatre. His fiction and poetry have been published inThe Antigonish Review, The New Quarterly, CV2, The Dalhousie Reviewand other literary journals. He has been a fellow of Fulbright Taiwan, the Center for Chinese Studies (National Central Library), the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden), and the Vermont Studio Centre/Luce Foundation.