Yingcai Xu

Yingcai Xu, a former English teacher of Fudan University, China, now teaches Chinese studies courses at DePaul University, USA. The courses he has offered include classical and modern Chinese languages, classical and modern Chinese literature, Chinese cinema, Chinese calligraphy theory and practice, and translation. He once went to teach at McMaster University, Canada while taking Canadian literature courses there. Later he came to DePaul University to study English and American literature, where he established the Chinese program for the university. He has over a dozen translation books published. Some of them are used as government gifts and some as teaching materials. In translation, he has a three-word principle, "accuracy, individuality, and cohesion." While trying to achieve an accurate rendering of the original text, he pursues the original spirit and a translation highly acceptable by mother-tongue readers. Besides, he has edited and co-edited over a dozen books. Yingcai Xu is also a poet. His poetry publications include Poetic South, Inspiration from Nature----Poems by Yingcai Xu in Chinese and English, and We Are Here Painting. He is now preparing to have a collection of Haiku published. Yingcai Xu is also the President of the Chinese Poetry Association and editor-in-chief of Poetry Hall, a Chinese-and-English bilingual journal. His poetic philosophy is, use simple, appealing, and imagination-evoking language to create vivid and poetic-sense-infused poems that come directly from the heart and the physical world and create a lasting and glittering effect of yijing or artistic conception.