Ethan, male, Chinese American, 1936 was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. The following year, he moved to Shanghai with his parents, and 1948 went to Taiwan Province Province with his family. 65438-0960, studying in the United States, studying for master's degree and doctor's degree at Indiana University. 1966 studied for a doctorate at Rutgers university in new jersey, USA, and then stayed there to teach until 1998. Ethan is one of the eight masters of landscape photography in the world and vice president of the World Chinese Photography Society. 1969 began to contact photography, 1972 became a member of the American photographic society, 1984, the picture album "landscape photography" was published by the American photographic press. Ethan's original use of stage lighting to make the picture beyond the real scene was named "Li Yuanguang" by the photography industry. His works embody the perfect combination of China's humanistic spirit and western photography, and present the realm of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. In the United States and China, Li Yuan has published more than ten photo collections and anthologies, such as Expressionist Landscape Photography, Creativity and Thinking, Talking about American Photography, Instantaneous Fantasy, and Li Yuan Watching Photography.