Professor of Sinology, KU Leuven (Belgium). Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium. Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Historical Studies, Princeton. Main research fields include: cultural exchange between China and Europe (since the 17th century), rituality in intercultural contacts (ritual dances, funeral rituals, local communities, spirituality) and on the role of (Chinese) historiography in this exchange. Major publications include: Yang Tingyun, Confucian and Christian in Late Ming China: His Life and Thought (1998), 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 (1995), The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe (2008).

Professor of Humanitas college, Yongin-si University. Main research fields include: Chinese museum history and cultural heritage. He has worked in the museum of Yongin-si University for 20 years and published many essays about Chinese museum history and cultural heritage.

Assistant professor at the Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel Switzerland, President of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy, Book review editor for the journal Philosophy East and West. Main research fields include: comparative philosophy, Chinese philosophy, modern Confucianism and the state of area studies in global knowledge production. Major publications include: co-edited volume on Comparative Philosophy without Borders.

Professor of Economics at UCD (University College Dublin), Ireland, Director of the Irish Institute for Chinese Studies at UCD, Director of UCD Confucius Institute, Chairman of the Association for Chinese Studies in Ireland, the Secretary-General of the Chinese Economic Association in Europe, Co-Editor for Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies. Main research fields include: economics.

Professor of Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University. Main research fields include: the history of Central Asia, mainly East Turkistan (modern Xinjiang) under domination of the West Uighur kingdom (9-12. cent) and the Mongol empire (13-14. cent.), philological edition of Old Uighur and Mongolian documents excavated from Xinjiang and Dunhuang. Major publications include: “A Sogdian-Uigur Bilingual Fragment from the Arat Collection”; “Revising the Uigur Inscriptions of the YulinCaves”.

Associate Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology at Yale University Divinity School, Adjunct Researcher at Renmin University of China, Executive Council Member of World Conference on Sinology. Main research fields include: Chinese and Japanese Christian literatures, China Mission, Chinese theological texts and the interaction between literature and theology in China. Major publications include: Chinese Theology: Text and Context (2016), Reading Christian Scripture in China (2008), Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing (2007).

Director of the Confucius Institute at the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany. Main research fields include: China-German relations in the late Qing era, especially on the exchanges with the Western Powers against the background of Global History. Major publications include: Jenseits von Schanghai, Eugen Flegler: Chinabilder 1936-38.

Sinologist, 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.

Professor Emeritus at Griffith University, Fellow of the Academy of Humanities of Australia. Once won a Friendship Award from the Chinese government in 2014 and in 2016 a Special China Book Award, given to foreigners who have made outstanding contributions in spreading Chinese culture through their writings. Main research fields include: Chinese history, musical theatre, ethnic minorities, Australia-China relations and Western images of China. Major publications include: The Rise of the Peking Opera, 1770–1870, Chinese Drama, A Historical Survey, China’s Ethnic Minorities and Globalisation.

Associate Professor in the Faculty of Asian and African Studies at St. Petersburg University, Russia. Main research fields include: modern Chinese literature and Russian-Chinese literary communication. Major publications: Handbook for Chinese Literary History; Lao She and China: Nationality in 20th Century Literature; Ba Jin's Heritage in Russia; Chinese Literature’s Stepping Out: the Dissemination of Contemporary Chinese Fictions and Essays in Russia after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Professor in Classical Chinese in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford; Vice Principal of St Anne's College, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor in Peking University and University of Tokyo. Main research fields include: Cultural History of Confucianism and Confucian ritual studies, History of Chinese religion and magical beliefs, Chinese politics and military history. Major publications include: Perspectives on ‘Li’ (礼) and 'Ritual' in Western Sinology.

Austrian Director of Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna. Teaching at the Department of East Asia Studies University/Sinology Chinese Literature and at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Main research fields include: Chinese classical literature and modern literature, translation and terminology studies, Chinese-Western intercultural studies. Major publications include: The Literary Theory and the Theory of Early Novels of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.