Mark Bender

Mark Bender is professor of Asian languages and literatures at Ohio State University. He is the author of Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition (University of Illinois Press, 2003); translator of Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China (Hackett, 2007); cotranslator of Hmong Oral Epics (Guizhou Nationalities Press, 2012); and coeditor of Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Culture (Columbia University Press, 2011).

Mark Bender is professor of Asian languages and literatures at Ohio State University. He is the author of Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition (University of Illinois Press, 2003); translator of Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China (Hackett, 2007); cotranslator of Hmong Oral Epics (Guizhou Nationalities Press, 2012); and coeditor of Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Culture (Columbia University Press, 2011). See less