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Sophie Volpp is a scholar in the fields of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature, focusing extensively on Chinese literature from the 16th to 19th centuries. She has authored significant works such as 'Worldly Stage: Theatricality Seventeenth-Century China' published by Harvard in 2011, and 'Substance Fiction: Literary Objects China, 1550-1775' released by Columbia in 2022. Her research includes the translation of works by pre-modern women poets and dramatists. Currently, she is engaged in projects that involve the preservation of rare book collections at the National Library of China, as well as an analysis of the figuration referents in the eighteenth-century novel 'Story Stone' (Honglou meng), titled 'Stone World.'
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