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Aku Wuwu, also known as Luo Qingchun, is a well-known poet of the Yi ethnic group in southwest China. A professor of Yi Studies and ethnic minority literature at the Southwest Nationalities University in Chengdu, Aku hails from Mianning County, located along the Yalong River in the Greater Cool Mountains Yi Nationality Autonomous Prefecture in southern Sichuan Province. Aku’s unique contribution to the poetic world of China, is a corpus of poems written in the revised Northern Yi script – a system of writing based on the ancient Yi writing system, once used only by Yi ritual priests. Aku both writes and performs his poems in Northern Yi dialect (also known as Nuosu).