Joanne Tsao, Ph.D. teaches at Arizona State University. She has published translation and articles, including "The Creation of the Bronze Bird Terrace-scape in the Northern and Southern Dynasties Period" (Early Medieval China 23 (2017).

In The City of Ye in the Chinese Literary Landscape, Joanne Tsao traces the evolution of the city of Ye from a lived to an imaginative space in the world of literary and historical texts.