Frances Weightman is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. She is founder and Director of the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing. She has written numerous book chapters and journal articles and is author of The Chinese Play: Festivals, Games and Leisure (2002), The Queest for the Childlike in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction: Fantasy, Naivety and Folly (2008) and (with Gao Wanlong and Wang Aiqin) A Handbook of Chinese Cultural Terms (2012).