Wang Shouyi is Dean of the School of Foreign Languages at Heilongjiang University, in Harbin, China. From 1996-97 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Ashland University. As a poet and critic, he has published many books and essays in China about both Chinese and American poetry. He has published a book of collaborative translations of classical Chinese poetry with the Spoon River Poetry Press (Granite Falls, MN).