Yau-Woon Ma or Y. W. Ma (born 1940) is emeritus professor of Chinese literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1971.^[1] He has held visiting professorships in Stanford University, National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University, Tunghai University, Lingnan University, and the University of Hong Kong (where he received his bachelor's degree in 1965).^[2]

• Ma, Y. W.; Lau, Joseph S. M., eds. (1986). Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations. Cheng & Tsui. ISBN 978-0887270710.
• Nienhauser, William H., ed. (1986). The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, Volume 1. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253334565. — as associate editor