Yingcai Xu has diverse interests. He is a translator who translates from Chinese to English and English to Chinese, a professor who teaches language, translation, and Chinese studies courses, and a poet who writes both traditional and new poems. He is the President of the Chinese Poetry Association and the Editor-in-chief of Poetry Hall – A Chinese and English Bilingual Journal.
The translation books he has published in recent years:
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In Other Words -- Poems by Wisconsin Poets in English and Chinese
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Eight Prose Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties
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Selected Works of Classical Chinese Prose
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Selected Works of Contemporary Chinese Prose
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100 Classic Chinese Poems
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The Selected Poems of Bing Hua
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Readings of Chinese Culture Series Essay III
The courses he has taught in recent years:
- Chinese Calligraphy — Practice and Theory
- Modern Chinese Literature
- Chinese Cinema
- Journal to the West (a work of classical fiction)
- Translation (undergraduate and graduate)