Leo Ou-fan Lee is Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of many books on Chinese literature and culture, and is also a great lover of Western classical music. Lee Yuk Ying is a published author and visual artist, whose paintings have been widely exhibited. Annie Ren Luman, translator, is a PhD candidate at The Australian National University, writing on the Chinese novel The Story of the Stone. Carol Ong, translator, was born in Taiwan. She studied translation at Melbourne University, where she is now employed. John Minford is editor of the series Hong Kong Literature in Translation series. He is Emeritus Professor of Chinese at The Australian National University and Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.