Introduction to Research on Late Imperial China: a Perspective from the UK

The Cultural Construction of an Ancient Chinese Kingdom, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 2013; "Marked out for Greatness?Perceptions of Deformity and Physical Disability in Ancient China", Monumenta Serica, 2007; "Kingship and Inheritance in the State of Wu: Fraternal Succession in Spring and Autumn Period China", T 'oung Pao, 2004).She is also the author of important annotated translations, such as The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan (Brill, 2016), Urbanization in Early and Medieval China: Gazetteers for the City of Suzhou (University of Washington Press, 2015), and The Glory of Yue: An Annotated Translation of the Yuejue shu (Brill, 2010).In her contribution to this issue of MQYJ, entitled "Zhao Luanluan and Her Tale", Milburn examines the fictional character of Zhao Luanluan 趙鸞鸞, the Yuan dynasty gentlewoman in the early Ming tragic story Luanluan zhuan 鸞鸞傳 (The Tale of Luanluan) by Li Changqi 李昌祺 (1376-1452).Milburn exposes the late Ming practice of misrepresentation of the poems attributed to Zhao within the story, casting light on their actual author, presumably Li himself.She also cautions readers about the consequences of misattribution, an