Ye Yuan

Ye Yuan is a literary and cultural historian who specializes in early modern Japanese and Chinese literature and culture, Sinitic studies in pre-1900 East Asia, vernacular literatures, and the Sinophone and Sinograph. Her current research projects include works on Ming-Qing Chinese popular fictions and their transmissions and transformations in East Asia, and the enthusiasm for colloquiality and contemporality in Sinitic cultures.

Ye Yuan is a literary and cultural historian who specializes in early modern Japanese and Chinese literature and culture, Sinitic studies in pre-1900 East Asia, vernacular literatures, and the Sinophone and Sinograph. Her current research projects include works on Ming-Qing Chinese popular fictions and their transmissions and transformations in East Asia, and the enthusiasm for colloquiality and contemporality in Sinitic cultures. See less