About the author

Tao Jie: publicly available information is limited, and the existing bibliographic records do not clearly state her identity or background. Judging from the nine works held in the collection, her editorial and translation work centers mainly on American literature, covering fiction, essays, and literary appreciation. Representative works include translations related to Alice Walker's The Color Purple and a collection of Walker's fiction, as well as selections from the Faulkner collection such as A Rose for Emily, Intruder in the Dust, and Sanctuary. She has also edited readers including Selected Readings in American Literature (Second Edition) and Selected Readings in American Prose. Her selections focus on major twentieth-century American writers and balance readability with a sense of literary history, offering Chinese readers reliable introductions to modern and contemporary American fiction and essays.

Written (9)

A Rose for Emily (Selected Works of Faulkner) cover
Rating 4.4
A Rose for Emily (Selected Works of Faulkner) William Faulkner / 李文俊 / 陶洁 People's Literature Publishing House · 2026 *A Rose for Emily* is a collection of Faulkner's short stories, gathering the finest of his short fiction, including "A Rose for Emily," "Two Soldiers…
Intruder in the Dust (Selected Works of Faulkner) cover
Rating 4.2
Intruder in the Dust (Selected Works of Faulkner) William Faulkner / 陶洁 People's Literature Publishing House · 2026 Intruder in the Dust is a "detective novel" from the later stage of Faulkner's career, first published in 1948. The novel tells of the son of a promin…
Sanctuary (Selected Works of Faulkner) cover
Rating 4.1
Sanctuary (Selected Works of Faulkner) William Faulkner / 陶洁 People's Literature Publishing House · 2026 First published in 1931, *Sanctuary* was Faulkner's first work to reach a wide readership. Set in a small Southern town during Prohibition-era America…
Collected Novels of Alice Walker: Representative Works of a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner (3 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.5
Collected Novels of Alice Walker: Representative Works of a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner (3 Volumes) 艾丽斯·沃克 / 闵晓萌 / 乔娟 / 陶洁 Post Wave Publishing · 2025
Selected Readings in American Literature (Second Edition) cover
Rating 4.2
Selected Readings in American Literature (Second Edition) 陶洁 · 2025 Edited by Tao Jie, a renowned professor at Peking University, with contributions from distinguished scholars at leading universities, Selected Reading…
Selected Readings in American Prose cover
Rating 4.1
Selected Readings in American Prose 陶洁 Peking University Press · 2025 This textbook is designed for English majors at the undergraduate and associate degree levels. It features 18 renowned American essayists, with one un…
Western Window Under the Lamp: American Literature and American Culture (Peking University European and American Literature Studies Series) cover
Rating 4.0
Western Window Under the Lamp: American Literature and American Culture (Peking University European and American Literature Studies Series) 陶洁 Peking University Press · 2025 This book offers both a general introduction to American literature and a focus on the distinctive features of American literature in different period…
The Color Purple cover
Rating 4.6
The Color Purple 艾丽斯·沃克 / 陶洁 Flower City Publishing House · 2023 An epistolary novel about female awakening, the pursuit of independence and freedom, and the bonds between women. It tells the story of Celie, a Black…
Where the Stress Falls cover
Rating 4.2
Where the Stress Falls Susan Sontag / 黄灿然 / 陶洁 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2015 This book continues Susan Sontag's characteristic acuity and multiplicity of perspective. In this latest collection of essays, her attention turns to …

Publishers

Shanghai Translation Publishing HousePeople's Literature Publishing HousePeking University PressPost Wave PublishingFlower City Publishing House