Mabel Lee

Mabel Lee is Adjunct Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney, and is one of Australia's leading authorities on Chinese cultural affairs. Her research deals with modern Chinese intellectual history and literature, and focuses on 2000 Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian and 1999 (Italian) Flaiano Poetry Prize winner Yang Lian. She has published translations of the major works of these two writers, as well as research that seeks to locate these two writers in modern/contemporary Chinese literary and intellectual history. Her translation of Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation was published by Cambria Press in 2012.