Ayling Wang received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale and specializes in Chinese Classical drama and literary theory. After being a senior researcher at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy of Academia Sinica for 20 years, Wang has been a professor and Chair of the Department of Theater Arts at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan since 2013. She has won the Academic Award for Outstanding Young Scholar of Academia Sinica, and several Outstanding Research Project Awards of the National Science Council in Taiwan. Having presided over more than 25 research projects on Chinese drama sponsored by National Science Council, Wang was also the chief investigator of quite a few group projects of Academia Sinica, National Science Council and Ministry of Education in Taiwan. Wang is the author of The Artistry of Characterization in the Masterpieces of Ming Qing Chuanqi Drama, The Aesthetic Construction and Artistic Presentation of the Classical Drama in the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, and more than ten other books. Recently she has completed four other manuscripts on Ming Qing Drama, which will be published in the near future.