Mabel Lee, PhD, Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, taught modern and contemporary Chinese history and literature at the University of Sydney, 1966-2000. She is concurrently adjunct/honorary professor in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at The University of Sydney and at The Open University of Hong Kong, and is best known for her translations of Nobel Laureate of Literature Gao Xingjian's writings, and as coeditor of The University of Sydney East Asian Series (1986-2000).