Changming Yuan grew up in a remote village in mid-south China. To see a working motor pump, the first thing he saw that had to do with 20th century, he got himself 99% drowned when he was in grade 4. Yuan had his first exposure to poetry at age 14, and did not begin to learn the English alphabet until he was 19 when he became an ESL student at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Before moving to Canada as an international student, he published monographs and journal articles on translation and the English language. With a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan, he lives a semi-retired l more...
