Cui Xiliang is a professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and a tutor of Ph.D. candidates. Professor Cui is the president of Beijing Language and Culture University, executive member of Chinese Language Society, vice-chairman of The International Society for Chinese Language Teaching and chairman of Beijing Language Society. He is the author of more than 40 published academic papers on linguistics and of many treatises, including Chinese Idioms and Chinese Humanism, Language Understanding and Cognition and A Brief Introduction to Linguistics, etc. Mr. Cui has been awarded as one of the Backbone Young Teachers of Universities in Beijing and has been selected by China’s Ministry of Education as one of the Trans-century Talents.