Her first pictorial artwork, “Meet the White Dolphin,” won the Excellence Award in the 2013 Nationwide Students’ Picture Book Creation Competition. It is an adventure story about a white dolphin and Ama, a traditional girl diver who collects seafood for a living. She also won the Bronze prize in the 2015 Voices of Future Generations International Writing Contest with “Tales of the Waves at Lanyu,” which describes how the indigenous people of Taiwan manage the conservation of marine resources. Ying-Xuan continues to create more stories and artwork with her unique viewpoint concerning environmental issues. In her Voices of Future Generations Gold Award-winning story, “A Path to Life,” she superbly deals with the issue of mutual dependence between animals and humans and demonstrates how all exist in the same bio-community.

Ying-Xuan is not only concerned with environmental issues, she also concerns herself greatly with human rights issues. She leads teams of school classmates to investigate children’s rights and the rights of disadvantaged people in her country of Taiwan. Her theses: “Let’s Play a Song Together with Black Keys and White Keys” and “The Missing Pieces” won the Excellence Award from the Thesis Writing Competition of the Northern County of Taiwan in 2014 and 2016, respectively. She gave a speech at the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Mexico in 2016 and a TEED talk for the Taiwanese “Children, Environment and Sustainable Development” forum, she joined “The Dialogues of Climate Generations” forum during the Taipei International Book Exhibition in 2017, and she gave a speech during the International Learning Circle on Children’s Rights & the World’s Sustainable Development Goals in London in 2018. In 2019, she shared her work with groups of artists and researchers at the International Conference on Critical Food Studies at Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Ying-Xuan is a young author who cares about animals and the environment in which we live together, and she will continue her stories about animal rights and how to connect to the meaning of life.