Professor Wu Xiucheng, from Lixin, Anhui, was born in March 1959. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Jiangxi Normal University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982. In 1984, he began studying in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Sichuan University, under the supervision of Professor Yang Mingzhao, and earned a Master’s degree in Ancient Chinese Literature in 1987. In the same year, he joined the Institute of Ancient Chinese Literature at Nanjing University. Later, he studied under Professor Xu Youfu, specializing in cataloging, and received a Ph.D. degree in Ancient Chinese Literature. In 1998, he was appointed as a visiting professor at Dongguk University in Gyeongju, South Korea. From 2006 to 2012, he served as the Vice Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and the Director of the Department of Ancient Chinese Literature. He is currently a professor and Ph.D. supervisor in the School of Liberal Arts at Nanjing University, as well as the Director of the Department of Ancient Chinese Literature. In 2013, he was appointed as a full-time professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea.