Patricia Sieber (DEALL) guest-edited a special issue of one of the leading journals on Chinese literary studies on the topic of "The Protean World of Sanqu Songs." The volume brings together work by scholars from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. Collectively, the essays contribute toward a reappraisal of the cultural practices and social meanings surrounding the poetic and musical form of Yuan and Ming dynasty sanqu songs. In addition to presenting the research of established scholars in the field, the issue also showcases peer-reviewed work of PhD students from DEALL and of alumni of OSU's Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (EAS) M.A. Program: Jayhyuk Lee (PhD student, DEALL) contributed an essay entitled "A Dialectic Between Genres and Poetic Extensions: Zhang Kejiu's 'Regulated Songs;' " Mario De Grandis (PhD candidate, DEALL), Ke Wang (PhD student, DEALL), Hui Yao (PhD candidate, DEALL), Jingying Gao (M.A., Interdisciplinary EAS), Ian McNally (M.A., Interdisciplinary EAS), Xu Yichun (PhD candidate, DEALL), and Jenn Marie Nunes (PhD candidate, DEALL) co-authored an essay with Sieber called "In Search of Pure Sound: Sanqu Songs, Genre Aesthetics, and Translation Tactics,"; and Erxin Wang (PhD student, DEALL) translated Prof. Ye Ye's essay entitled "Yuan-Ming Sanqu as Communal Texts: Discovering Their Literary Vitality from a New Research Perspective" from Chinese into English. The issue is dedicated to Stephen H. West, one of the leading scholars of Yuan literature and Sieber's erstwhile advisor.