Mei Ah Tan, Ph.D. (2008), University of Wisconsin, Madison, is Professor of Chinese, Programme Director of the Master of Arts in Chinese, and Associate Director of The Tin Ka Ping Institute for Chinese Language and Culture at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Her research is multidisciplinary, exploring the intersection of linguistics, literature, and history. She has published on classical Chinese language and literature. Her work includes articles on Yuan Zhen and Han Yu and A Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese (Routledge, 2023).