Jixi Yuan is Professor and Doctoral Tutor of School of Chinese Classics at Renmin University of China. He is an Academic Committee Member of the Confucius Research Institute of Renmin University, a Visiting Professor of the Center for Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education at Peking University, Vice President of the Chinese Association on The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons and Executive Director of Chinese Society of Aesthetics. His research interests include ancient Chinese literary criticism; literature of Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties and ancient Chinese aesthetics. Perry W. Ma is Professor at Lane Community College, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon.

His past publications include books in translation Amazing Tales: Second Series , Confucius: The Sage on the Road , and Random Recollections of the Cow Shed .