Aku Wuwu (Luo Qingchun) was born in 1964 in a hamlet in Mianning County, Da Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province. He is dean and professor of ethnic minority studies at the Southwest University of Nationalities, Chengdu, Sichuan province. A poet and literary critic, he has published several collections of poetry and prose in Chinese as well as in the Nuosu dialect of Yi. Translations of his works have appeared in numerous journals and edited books including Manoa, Ratapallax and Basalt. A tri-lingual edition of selected Nuosu and Chinese poems entitled Tiger Traces was published in 2005. [Read 1 2]