Teri Shaffer Yamada is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Comparative Literature and Classics at California State University, Long Beach. A passionate student of both Asian languages and the art of translation, Yamada has studied Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Japanese, and Cambodian.
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