Photo by Per E.Børdahl

Vibeke Børdahl, Ph.D., Dr.Phil., is senior researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen. She is presently engaged in a project sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council for the Humanities, Programme for Cultural Studies. She has taught Chinese language and literature at the University of Aarhus, the University Oslo and the University of Copenhagen. Her book-length studies in English include:

Along the Broad Road of Realism - Qin Zhaoyang's World of Fiction (Curzon Press, London 1990); The Oral Tradition of Yangzhou Storytelling (Curzon Press, Richmond 1996); The Eternal Storyteller - Oral Literature in Modern China (Curzon Press, Richmond 1999, with photos by Jette Ross); and Vibeke Børdahl and Jette Ross: Chinese Storytellers - Life and Art in the Yangzhou Tradition (Cheng & Tsui, Boston 2002).

Recent books:

Vibeke Børdahl, Fei Li and Huang Ying, eds: Four Masters of Chinese Storytelling—Full-length Repertoires of Yangzhou Storytelling on Video, Yangzhou pinghua sijia yiren—quan shu biaoyan luxiang mulu, bilingual edition English and Chinese , DVD with film and performances included (NIAS Press, Copenhagen 2004);

Vibeke Børdahl: Tiger, tiger. Wu Song og Tigeren i kinesisk historiefortælling (text in Danish, with photos by Jette Ross, Vandkunsten Forlag, Copenhagen 2004)