Patricia Ebrey is professor emeritus of history at the University of Washington. Among her publications are Emperor Huizong (Harvard University Press, 2014), Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (University of Washington Press, 2008), The Cambridge History of China (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period (University of California Press, 1993).Zhang Cong Ellen :

Cong Ellen Zhang is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song (960-1279) China (University of Hawai'i Press, 2011) and coeditor of Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives (University of Washington Press, 2019).Yao Ping :

Ping Yao is professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the coauthor of East Asia: A Documentary History (Cognella, 2016), Gendering Chinese Religion: Subject, Identity, and Body (SUNY Press, 2014), and Sharing the World Stage: Biography and Gender in World History (Houghton Mifflin 2007).

Patricia Buckley Ebrey is professor emeritus of history at the University of Washington. Her many books include The Cambridge Illustrated History of China and Emperor Huizong. Cong Ellen Zhang is professor of history at the University of Virginia. She is author of Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China and Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China: Family, State, and Native Place. Ping Yao is professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles. She is author of Women, Gender and Sexuality in China: A Brief History. Together, they are the editors of Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives.

"This literary gem is the first generically and topically diverse anthology of Chinese autobiographical writing published in English. Its chronological breadth (tenth cent. BCE to the twentieth century) will appeal to students of Chinese history and literature and to scholars interested in gaining deeper knowledge of traditional prose writing."—James M. Hargett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

"A wonderfully thoughtful selection of self-accounts by men and women, this anthology captures the richness and diversity of premodern Chinese autobiographical writings in elegant translations. An important resource and a pleasure to read."—Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University

"With a broad range of texts valuable in their own rights and especially important to students in the present day, this volume is an extremely useful resource to university teachers."—Charles Sanft, author of Literate Community in Early Imperial China: The Northwestern Frontier in Han Times

"An excellent textbook with an impressive selection of pieces, helpful introductions, and extremely high-quality translations."—Olivia Milburn, author of The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction