KO Dorothy Yin-Yee is a professor of history at Barnard College of Columbia Univeristy, and an Academician of the Academia Sinica. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D at Stanford Univerisity. She has taught at the University of California at San Diego and at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Ko is a cultural historian who specializes in gender and body in early modern China. Her publications include The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China (Washington, 2017); The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory, edited with Lydia H. Liu & Rebecca E. Karl (Columbia, 2013); Translating Feminisms in China, edited with Z. Wang (Blackwell, 2007); Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (University of California Press, 2005); Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (University of California Press, 2001).