Sabina Knight 桑稟華 is author of The Heart of Time (2006) and Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2012, translated into three languages). Knight teaches comparative literature at Smith College. She is also a translator, a speaker on Chinese literature, and a fellow in the NCUSCR’s Public Intellectuals Program.
China’s fifty-five officially recognized “minority peoples” make up less than 9 percent of the People’s Republic of China. Still, they number more than 130 million, and their literature deserves…