This is a collection of modern Chinese and English poems in the most popular classical Song style metrical formats, and short Chinese and English essays in the concise and sharp styles. The collection provides completely different perspectives on the world and life.
There are 16 categories with total 152 pieces in this collection of literacy works. From Hometown, Youth, College, to Study Abroad and Work, it is a trajectory of life. Holidays, Travel, Foreign Culture, Living Abroad and Second Hometown describe the different ways of life in different lands. Then comes the bird view on the world and life, Philosophy, Faith, Life, See the World, History and Look into Future. It is the Out-Of-Box thinking and sharp reflection that really pull all the things together.
Human beings are so used to what we see and hear every day. We are constantly confined to a domain that we are subconsciously accustomed to. That is why we need to see the outside world by going out of box. As we get comfortable with what we see and hear, it becomes clear that the outside world is not that different. The new world then becomes a box itself. We need to continuously get out of the comfort zone, find the new comfort zone and go through the iterations in a never-ending way.
Growing up and spending the youth in China allows me to be deeply inherited with Chinese philosophy and the Eastern way of thinking. Thirty years of American experience provide me a completely different way to look at the world and life. It is not about having it all. It is more about experiencing it all. It is life itself, bit by bit, drop by drop, that makes it all meaningful. At a certain stage of life, it all suddenly starts to make sense. Inside out, upside down. Spiral ascending. It is the Out-Of-Box thinking and sharp reflection that traverse a truly meaningful life. Attempts have been made here to express all these in a concise and articulate manner, in the forms of metrical poems and short essays, in both Chinese and English.
Some of the pieces may contain sharp personal opinions. The beauty is that you do not have to agree with me. And the essence is the thought process itself. The goal here is to inspire new thoughts and new ideas. It is the critical thinking and sharp reflection that I am aiming here. Ultimately this is an Out-Of-Box collection of literacy works after all.
Yuexin Liu, born in Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province, China, currently lives in Seattle, Washington State, U.S.A. Yuexin graduated from No. 1 High School of Xinyu City in 1984, went to college in Beijing and graduated with honor and B.S. from the Department of Geophysics of Peking University in 1988. He was admitted to Chinese Academy of Sciences with the Entrance Exam exempted. In 1991, he was admitted to MIT for Ph.D. study under the advice of TEPCO Professor Ronald G. Prinn. Yuexin earned the MIT Ph.D. in Global Change Science and completed majority of the Sloan School MBA program. He served as Board Member of MIT CSSA (Chinese Students and Scholars Association), and VP for MIT CAST (Chinese Association of Science and Technology). Yuexin has over 25 years of experience in Software Development, Business System Implementation, Business Management and E-Commerce Operations Management. He worked for Microsoft for 7 years, leading the Commerce Platform operations as a Senior Lead Program Manager. He was the Senior Director of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Systems for the Chicago E-Commerce company OpticsPlanet and the Chief Solution Architect for the Los Angeles company Western Computer. Yuexin foundered two companies - Enterprise InfoEdge and Mundus Artis. He is currently the President of Mundus Artis. Yuexin is a member of PMI. He once created the Nested Library software design and crawling technology for Business Systems. Yuexin is passionate about Philosophy, History and Hiking. During the Baida time, he studied Pre-Qin Philosophers through the class taught by Visiting Professor Guying Chen from Taiwan University. He also studied Western Economics class by Professor Yining Li from Guanghua School. His undergraduate study focused on Non-Linear Dynamic System, Chaos and Attractors.
