Rostislav Berezkin is associate professor in the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai. He received his PhD in 2010 in East Asian languages and civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania. This is his first book.

Rostislav Berezkin is associate professor in the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai.

"Many Faces of Mulian is a fine interdisciplinary study on the baojuan genre that spans the boundaries between popular literature, religion, folklore, and anthropology, among others."

"A fine presentation of new and hitherto largely unstudied material, by a rising star in the field of Chinese folklore and popular literature."—Philip Clart, translator of The Story of Han Xiangzi: The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal

"The most critical study to date of baojuan versions of the tremendously popular story of Mulian, the filial monk who rescues his mother from the horrors of hell. Berezkin firmly establishes himself as the foremost scholar not just of Mulian but of the baojuan genre."—Beata Grant, cotranslator of Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang