Richard Trappl is an Austrian Director of Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna and teaching at the Department of East Asia Studies University/Sinology Chinese Literature and at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. His research focuses on Chinese classical literature and modern literature, translation and terminology studies, Chinese-Western intercultural studies. Among his numerous publications isthe Literary Theory and the Theory of Early Novels of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Director of the Center for Argentina-China Studies (CEACh) of the School of Social Sciences (FSOC) of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and Coordinator of the East Asian Studies Group (GEEA) of the "Gino Germani" Research Institute (IIGG). Adjunct Researcher of the China Research Program of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research. Associate Professor "History of Asia" at the National University of General Sarmiento (ICI-UNGS). Special Consultant for International Cooperation of the National University of General Sarmiento under the Office of the Vice President. His research topics focus on political thought and administrative structure, historiographical practices and text production, and religious discourses and practices in ancient and early imperial China. He recently started researching the development of Chinese studies programs in Latin American universities. Among his numerous publications are “The China Studies in Argentina: A Review and Prospects”(2019), “‘Sturdy Boulders that Protect the Realm’ Early Medieval Chinese Thinkers on Decentralized Governance”(2018), and “Being in Time: What Medieval Chinese Theorists can Teach us About Social History”(co-authored, 2017).

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 .

Yong Wang is a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Renmin University of China, Director of the Development Planning Division of the Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education, and a researcher at the Confucius Research Institute of Renmin University of China. His research interests include Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, The Gongyang Commentary on The Spring and Autumn Annals, and the history and philosophy of Confucianism.

Professor at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China, and former Vice President of Renmin University of China. Main research fields: comparative and world literature, Western literary theory, religious studies, Christianity. Representative works: China, Christianity and Cultural Issues (2014), Meaning - The Publicity Problem of Contemporary Theology (2012). Recent representative works: "Interpreting the Chinese Concept of the Problem of ‘Chineseization’: Taking the Examples of ‘Dialogue’ and ‘Relevance’", Journal of the Renmin University of China, No. 1, 2023; "’A roll of the dice’ in the chain of thought.: Sartre, Deleuze, Blanchot, and Bardot Interpret a Verse of Mallarmé", Foreign Literary Studies (外国文学研究), Vol. 4, No. 4, 2022; "Rereading ‘知’ and ‘行’among Epictetus, Ricardo, and Wang Yangming from Foucault”, Studies in World Religions, No. 5, 2022.

Zhang Longxi is a Ph. D. of Harvard University, he taught at the University of California, Riverside, the City University of Hong Kong, and currently he is teaching at Hunan Normal Univeristy. He published more than 20 books and numerous articles in English and Chinese on Chinese-Western comparative studies. He is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy and Academia Europaea, and an Honorary President of the International Comparative Literature Association.His research focuses on East-West cross-cultural studies. Among his numerous publications areThe Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West(1992),Mighty Opposites(1997),Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West(2005),Unexpected Affinities(2007), andFrom Comparison to World Literature(2015).