Max L. Bohnenkamp is a scholar of modern Chinese literature and culture and a freelance translator specializing in Chinese scholarly writings in the Humanities and Social Sciences and fiction. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and has taught on Chinese literature, popular culture, and cinema at NYU, Harvard, and the University of Iowa. Bohnenkamp’s research focuses on the adaptation of Chinese folk culture for modern and contemporary literature, cinema, and performing arts, the reception of Western and Soviet theories of literary and dramatic aesthetics in China, and the relationship of creative expression to politics and critical social theory. He is currently completing a book-length study on the famous revolutionary drama The White-Haired Girl and his most recent translation is a collection of essays by Chinese scholars of religion, entitled Beyond Indigenization: Christianity and Chinese History in a Global Context, published in 2023.