#  Prof. Anna M. Shields 

Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University

 

 

 



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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.



 

 

 





 

 

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