Author: Joseph R. Allen

Joseph R. Allen is professor emeritus of Chinese literature at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Taipei: City of Displacements (University of Washington Press, 2012; winner of the Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 China, Association of Asian Studies, 2014) and In the Voice of Others: Chinese Music Bureau Poetry (Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan Press, 1992); translator of Forbidden Games & Video Poems: The Poetry of Yang Mu and Lo Ch”ing (University of Washington Press, 1993); and editor of a revised edition of The Book of Songs, translated by Arthur Waley (Grove Press, 1996; revised 2000, 2011).