Dr. Shouhua Qi was born and grew up in China as the country was still feeling the effects of the Cultural Revolution, political purges and social upheaval. When he was accepted to university, he worked hard to excel in the major that was assigned to him: English. He eventually journeyed to the U.S. to earn his Ph.D. and now combines his love of English with research in China, where he studies the introduction and effect of Western literary classics on Chinese society.
