Professor in Chinese Language, Literature Culture Studies, School of Language, Literature Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Research Areas:Modern Chinese literature, Chinese folklore. Main Publications:Complete Poems of Mao Tse-tung and the Literary Analysis (2012); Chinese Sounds and Syllables: A Handbook for Indians (2012); Ho Chi Minh: Prison Diary during his captivity in China (2013).

Professor of Linguistics, dean of Chinese department at Ankara University. Main research fields include: Chinese history; Chinese philosophy and Chinese culture. Major publications include: Confucius, practical Chinese.

Associate Professor in Chinese Philology Department, Senior Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg University, Russia. Main research fields include: modern Chinese literature, Russian-Chinese literary communication, literary translation. Major publications include: Handbook for Chinese Literary History; Lao She and Issue of National Character in the 20th Century Chinese Literature; Chinese Literature’s Stepping Out: The Dissemination of Contemporary Chinese Fictions and Essays in Russia after the Collapse of the USSR. He compiled and edited 23 collections of contemporary Chinese literarure translations, etc.

Head of Sinology as well as Full Professor at the University of Leuven; a member of the Belgium Royal Academy of Sciences. His research interests focus on the history of Sino-European cultural relations during the late Ming and early Qing. Major Publications: Yang Tingyun: Confucian and Christian in Late Ming China; The Fascinating God: A Challenge to Modern Chinese Theology Presented by a Text on the Name of God Written by a 17th Century Chinese Student of Theology; Inculturation: The Gospel and Cultures, Methodology in View of Contact Between Cultures: The China Case in the 17th Century; The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe, Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: Travelling Books, Community Networks, and Intercultural Arguments; etc.

Associate professor of Asian Christianity and theology at Yale Divinity School; Adjunct Researcher at Renmin University of China; former lecturer at faculty of Oriental Studies at University of Oxford. Main research fields include: Chinese theological texts and the interaction between literature and theology in China. Major publications include: Chinese Theology: Text and Context (2016), Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing (2008), Reading Christian Scripture in China (2007).

Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the School of Philosophy, Fudan University. Main research fields include: Western modern Philosophy, political Philosophy, Jewish and Christian Philosophy, French Philosophy, and comparative Philosophy. Major Publications include: Metaphysics in the 17th Century (co-author); Political Philosophy and Theology in Chinese (co-author); Facing the Other: a study on Levinas’ Philosophy; On Family: Individual and Qinqin, etc.

Director, Copenhagen Business Confucius Classroom, Niels Brock International.  Working with Chinese affairs for 40 years from positions with Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark; European Commission; private enterprises and educational institutions.  Main research field include: Sustainable development of Confucius Institute.  Major publications include: The Core Elements in the Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China; When The Theory of the Three Worlds Became a Theory: Chinese Foreign Policy in the 1970s; The fall of the Qing Dynasty – at the time the world’s largest and most prosperous country, etc.

Ton Shijun is Professor of Philosophy and University Council Chairman of East China Normal University; Editor-in-Chief at Philosophical Analysis (bimonthly), member of the Social Science Committee of Ministry of Education, and Vice Chairman of Shanghai Federation of Social Sciences. His research interests focus on epistemology, practical philosophy, social theory, etc. Major publications: The Problem of Modernity in the Dialogue between China and the West; Critique and Practice: Essays on Jürgen Haberma Dialectics of Modernization: Habermas and the Chinese Discourse of Modernization; etc.

Associate professor and the director of Confucius Institute at University of Vienna, Austria. Vice dean of the College of East Asia, and the Honorary Professor of China University of Political Science and Law. Main research fields include: modern Chinese and Chinese literature. Major publications include: the Literary Theory and the Theory of Early Novels of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Social Science, University of Buenos Aires; Associate Professor Researcher at National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS); Director of Argentina-China Studies Center Argentina-China Study Center (ACSC) at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Research Areas:Ancient Chinese political thought and administrative practice; early Chinese historiography and textual production; early and medieval Chinese social history; early and medieval Chinese religious practices; Asia in the twentieth century, decolonization processes in Asia; Modernization and Urbanization in Asia, Asian diasporas and migrant communities in Latin America. Main Publications:“Dimensiones de la cooperación académica y cultural con la República Popular China” (co-authored), in Llenderrozas, Elsa (ed.) Rusia, China e India en América Latina. Un enfoque multidimensional,(2018); “The role of Ethnic Minorities in the Governance of the Frontier Regions. Evaluating the Contributions of Ethnic Minorities to the Territorial Governance during the Qin and Han Dynasties,” in A Collection of Research Papers of the Visiting Program for Young Sinologists 2017 (Xi’an)(Forthcoming, 2018); “Being in Time: What Medieval Chinese Theorists can Teach us About Social History” (co-authored), in Leigh Jenco (ed.),Chinese Thought as Global Theory: Diversifying Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences and Humanities, (2016); “A Bride for the River God. Ximen Bao and the Eradication of Human Sacrifice in Early China,” in Romer Cornejo, (coord.).China: Estudios y Ensayos en Honor a Flora Botton Beja(2012).

Vice-president of Peking University; Professor, PhD Tutor, and the Head of the School of Philosophy, Peking University. Main research fields include: ancient Chinese philosophy, with the particular focus on Taoism, Confucianism, and early unearthed literature. Major publications include: Helpless and Happy: Chuang Tzu's Spiritual World; Historian Features of Lao Tzu Thought.

Wang Yong is Doctor of Philosophy, Researcher at Confucius Research Institute of Renmin University, and  Chief of Office at Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban). His areas of expertise include Biography of Gong Yang in Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu Gong Yang Zhuan), Jinwen Confucian Canon, Confucian Philosophy of History, Confucius Institute, and International Communication of Chinese, etc. He has published numerous papers.