YE Ye is currently a professor of the Department of Chinese, Zhejiang University. He received his doctoral degree in 2009 from Fudan University. His research interests include Chinese literature in Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, popular literary genres such as Ci and Qu, as well as the transformation of Chinese literature in Early Modern period. Apart from a number of academic papers, he has published three books: Collected Ci-poems of Ming Dynasty: A Supplementary Anthology (2007, with others), Civil Service and Literature of Ming Dynasty (2011), and Composers of Qu-poems in Late Ming Period (2017).