Bai Xingjian
Bai Xingjian was a Chinese novelist, poet, and short story writer. He was a younger brother of the famed poet Bai Juyi.
One of his most famous works is the novella The Tale of Li Wa. It has been translated into English many times:
- by Arthur Waley in More Translations from the Chinese — as "The Story of Miss Li".
- by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang in The Dragon King's Daughter: Ten T'ang Dynasty Stories — as "Story of a Singsong Girl".
- by Glen Dudbridge in The Tale of Li Wa: Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century.