Professor Yu Genyuan (于根元),Born 1940 in Shanghai to a family that originally hailed from Taixing County (泰興縣), Jiangsu Province, Professor Yu Genyuan (于根元) graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Nanjing University in 1963. He then worked in the editorial division of the journal Zhongguo Yu Wen (Chinese Language and Literature) (中國語文) of the Institute of Linguistics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中國社會科學院語言研究所) . In 1984, he worked for the Institute of Applied Linguistics (語言文字應用研究所) of the State Language Commission (國家語言文字工作委員會) and served as its deputy director and the editor of the journal Yu Yan Wen Xue Ying Yong (Applied Linguistics and Literature) (語言文學應用). In 1998, he worked for the Broadcasting and Anchoring School of the Communication University of China (北京廣播學院 (現中國傳媒大學) 播音主持藝術學院), and was a research fellow and doctoral supervisor. His major research areas focused on applied linguistics and its history and theories, and his works include Er Shi Shi Ji de Zhongguo Yu Yan Ying Yong Yan Jiu (A Study in Applied Chinese Linguistics in 20^th Century) (二十世紀的中國語言應用研究), Yu Yan Ke Xue Dui Hua (A Dialogue on Language Sciences) (語言科學對話), Ying Yong Yu Yan Xue Li Lun Gang Yao (An Outline of Applied Linguistics Theories) (應用語言學理論綱要) and Zhongguo Wang Luo Yu Yan Ci Dian (Dictionary of Chinese Netspeak) (中國網絡語言辭典).