Prof. Anna M. Shields
Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University
Anna M. Shields is a scholar of middle period Chinese literature, focusing on the second half of the Tang through the end of the Northern Song. She is the co-editor (with Robert Hymes) of the forthcoming two-volume work of essays on Tang and Song history and culture, From Tang to Song: Transmissions and Inventions in China’s Middle Period (Routledge, 2026) and is completing a new monograph on the transmission of Tang literature from the Five Dynasties through the Northern Song. For the Library of Chinese Humanities, she has served as volume editor for The Works of Li Qingzhao, translated by Ronald Egan, and is the editor for Egan’s four-volume series of translations of Song dynasty writer Su Shi, volume 1 of which will appear in 2026.