Li, Yongyi

Yongyi Li is professor of English at Chongqing University. His major fields of inquiry include Anglo-American modernist poetry, Roman poetry and classical Chinese poetry. He was awarded a Loeb Classical Library Foundation grant in 2008 and a Fulbright Visiting Scholarship in 2012. An active literary translator, he has rendered fourteen books into Chinese from English, French and Latin, of which Catullus' Carmina signaled the first full presentation of the Roman poet in China.