Philip F. Williams is Professor and Head, Schoolof Language Studies, Massey University, New Zealand. His previous books include "Village Echoes: The Fiction of Wu Zuxiang "(1993). Yenna Wu is Professor of Chinese and Director of the Asian Languages and Civilizations Program at the University of California at Riverside and author of "The Chinese Virago: A Literary Theme "(1995), "Ameliorative Satire" (1999), among other books.