Yanbing Tan

Associate Professor of Chinese
B.A., Austin College; M.A., PhD, Washington University
yatan@sewanee.edu

Yanbing Tan received her PhD in Chinese and Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a scholar of late imperial Chinese fiction and drama. Her first monograph, Love for a Laugh: the Comic in Romantic Chuanqi Plays of the 17^th and 18^th Centuries (Brill, 2023), explores the relationship between the romantic and the comedic in one of the most important dramatic genres in late imperial China. Her current research focuses on the construction of masculinity in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

At Sewanee, she teaches both language and culture classes.