Mabel Lee

Mabel Lee PhD FAHA is Adjunct Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney where she was a member of the academic staff, 1966–2000. Her ongoing research concerns Chinese intellectual history and literature of the modern era, and her publications focus mainly on the three writers Lu Xun (1881–1936), Gao Xingjian (b. 1940) and Yang Lian (b. 1956). She is also translator of Noel Laureate Gao Xingjian’s novels Soul Mountain, One Man’s Bible, his short-story collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather and two books of nonfiction The Case for Literature and The Aesthetics of Creation. She has also translated three books of poetry by Yang Lian; Masks & Crocodile, The Dead in Exile and Yi).