Lee Ukyeon received his BA and PhD in Chinese Literature from Korea University. He studied at the Graduate School of Beijing Normal University and served as a visiting professor at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard. He is currently a professor of Chinese Literature at Sogang University. To date, he has written Lee Ukyeon’s Chinese Class, China Talks to Me, and Close to China. He has translated Lu Xun’s The True Story of Ah Q, A Madman's Diary, and Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk.