Quoc Sinh Nguyen is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of History, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. His main research areas are Sino-Vietnamese relations and Southeast Asian issues. He has published monographs such as Studies on Ancient Vietnamese Figures, History of Gao Ping and General History of Vietnam. His main academic papers include “Understanding Some New Issues of the Vietnamese Ding Dynasty from the Perspective of Comparing Historical Records between Song and Vietnam,” “A Comparative Study of the Records on the Ding-Song Relationship in Sino-Vietnamese Historical Records,” and “The Game of Imperial Power: Another Cause of the Song-Ly War,” among others.

Quoc Tu Nguyen is the Dean of the Chinese Department at Dongdu University in Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam, PhD in Linguistics from Beijing Language and Culture University. His research focuses on international Chinese language education in Vietnam. He received the Innovation Paper Award at the 2016 World Chinese Language Teaching Conference.

Thi Luyen Nguyen is an assistant professor at VNU Hanoi-University of Languages and International Studies, a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Fudan University. Her research primarily focuses on cultural linguistics, translation, and teaching Chinese as a second language. She has published over a dozen academic papers in Vietnamese core journals, covering topics related to Chinese language teaching, cultural linguistics, and translation. Her translation work is Hanyu Jiaocheng (Textbook for Chinese Language).

​Thi Van Quynh Nguyen is a Ph.D. candidate of Nankai University. Her main research area is the study of Vietnamese characters and colloquial characters. She has published several papers in Calligraphy Newspaper and Chinese Character Research.

Ibrahima Niang is an assistant lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Dakar, Senegal. His research and teaching focuses on economic sociology and international relations, and China's geopolitics.

William H. Nienhauser, Jr. is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Chinese literature. Having studied in the Far East and Germany, Nienhauser received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1973. He has held a number of fellowships (including awards from Woodrow Wilson, ACLS, NEH, Fulbright-Hayes, Japan Foundation, German Research Foundation, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) and taught or held research professorships in China, Germany, Japan and Taiwan. In 2003 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Humboldt Foundation. Nienhauser has authored or edited over a dozen books and nearly one hundred articles and reviews including the Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, The Grand Scribe's Records. Vol. 1, 2, 5.1, 7, 8, 9 and 10 (an on-going translation of Sima Qian's 司马迁 Shiji 史记), and a collection of essays in Chinese, Zhuanji yu xiaoshuo (Zhonghua, 2007). Nienhauser is a founding editor of Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR; since 1979).

Dankyung No is an international student from South Korea, Ph. D. candidate in Chinese Philosophy at Peking University. Her main research areas are Pre-Qin Philosophy, Daoist Philosophy, and Practical Philosophy. Currently, she is conducting research related to the Theory of Xinxing 心性 of Daoism.

​She a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Ph.D. in Anthropology with a specialization in China, through a joint program developed at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Peking University in China. She has been an accredited correspondent in China and war correspondent in Afghanistan and Iraq for the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio. She worked as a Spanish teacher in the Department of Foreign Languages at Peking University and a News anchor and editor at CGTN's Spanish channel. Her publications include Passionate about Peru: 18 stories of Chinese characters with the same Peruvian heart (Chinese-Spanish bilingual edition, 2013), The Hakka in Peru (Chinese edition, 2019), and We, The Hakka. Trajectories in China and Peru (Spanish edition, 2021).

Alain-James Palisse, graduated from the French Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures with a Bachelor's Degree in Chinese Language, and graduated from the University of Political Science in Paris with a Master's Degree in Political Science. He is currently a doctoral student at the Renmin University of China and the Université Paul Valery in Montpellier, France, under the supervision of Prof Jean-François Vergnaud, with the research interests of Chinese-French co-operation in higher education and education. He worked as a project officer in the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in China, and has been working on the French side of the Faculty of Law since September 2011, where he is currently the Director of the French Office and the Director of Teaching and Student Affairs.

Kiraz Perinçek Karavit is a postdoctoral researcher at Asian Studies Center of Bogaziçi University, Turkey. Her primary research areas include Silk Road studies, cultural and artistic interactions, Chinese history, folk cultural arts, and narrative painting.

Igor Radev is a chair scholar of the Knowledge Centre of Sinology at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a translator. His research interests include Chinese linguistics, Chinese ancient philosophy and literature. His major translations include Laozi's Daodejing (in Macedonian) and The Book of Odes (in Serbian), among others.

Ranjit Rajiv is a lecturer at Kathmandu University, Nepal, Ph.D. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from Xiamen University. His research interests are Chinese language education and promotion of Chinese language and culture.

Alexandre Reichart is a researcher at the Institute for the Philosophy, History and Analysis of Economic Representations (PHARE) of the University of Paris, and a member of the teaching and research faculty of Economics at the School of Law of the Renmin University of China. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Paris in 2014, under the supervision of André Strauss, Director of Research of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Before coming to China, he taught at the Institut Supérieur d'Administration et d'Accountation (ISAAC), the University of Paris II, the University of Paris III, the University of Paris VII, and many other French universities. He is mainly engaged in research on economic history, history of economic thought, and monetary policy and theory. He has published monographs such as Les Grandes Théories Économiques “Pour les Nuls,” Économie Contemporaine, for the journal Alternatives économiques, and is currently working on a book in the field of the history of Chinese economic thought with his colleague Zhang Wenjie.

James Robson is a Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, a member of the Board of Directors of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and one of the three chief editors of TOUNG PAO. His academic fields include the history of Chinese Buddhism and Taoism. His academic works and compilations include Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China (which won the Jurien Prize of the Académie française de lettres and the Tomohide Numata Book Prize for Buddhism), Images, Relics, and Legends: The Formation and Transformation of Buddhist Sacred Sites, Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia: Places of Practice, and The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Daoism. He is currently working on a monograph, Tao Te Ching: A Biography, for the Princeton University Press series “Biographies of Great Religious Books”.

AKorean PhD studentat Department of Chinese, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University. Her research interests include the diachronic evolution of Chinese vocabulary, the development of world languages, especially vocabulary development. During her undergraduate years, she majored in classical Chinese studies, and she worked for a Korean language and computer software company to develop language corpus for machinetranslation.

Don Snow (PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University) has taught language, culture, and linguistics for over two decades in various parts of China, as well as in the United States, and is currently Senior Director of Language and Culture Center at Duke Kunshan University. His research interests and academic articles focus on sociolinguistic topics such as diglossia and the historical development of written forms of Chinese vernaculars, and Cantonese as Written Language: The Growth of a Written Chinese Vernacular was published by Hong Kong University Press in 2004.

Kirill Solonin is Professor of School of Chinese Classics at Renmin University of China. His research focuses on Chinese Buddhism, Xixia Buddhism, Buddhist philology and Xixia languages and literature. Among his numerous publications are dozens of papers mainly related to topics such as Xixia and North China Buddhism, “Dīpaṃkara in the Tangut context” p. 1-2, AOH, 63（4）and 65（1）.

SONG Yang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Economics of Renmin University of China, Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell University, deputy director of the Common Wealth Institute of Renmin University of China, and a Distinguished Scholar of Renmin University of China. He is also the associate editor of China and World Economy. His research interests include development economics and labor economics. His major works include Current Situation and Reform Measures of China's Income Distribution Patterns: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis Based on the Labor Market; Labor Economics; “Hukou-based labor market discrimination and ownership structure in urban China,”; “What should economists know about the current Chinese hukou system?”; “Rising Chinese Regional Income Inequality: The Role of Fiscal Decentralization.”

Professor SU Peng is a Chinese classical philologist at Nanjing Normal University, he received his PhD in Classical Philology from Nanjing Normal University in 2010, and has stayed in the university to teach since then. He has been a visiting scholar of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, an invited scholar of the Institute for the Study of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Peking University in the 4th term, and a scholar-in-residence of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Zhejiang University in the spring/summer of 2019. He is mainly engaged in the study of pre-Qin and Han classics, ancient literature of character texts and related ancient manuscripts. He has published many papers in Literature and History, Literary Heritage, Journal of Chinese Historical Studies, Chinese Literature and History Series, Journal of Chinese Humanities, Wenxian, and Guoxue Yanjiu.

Native of Zibo, Shandong Province. He received his PhD from Zhejiang University and a postdoctoral Fellow in Literature from Shandong University. He is now a professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Confucius Institute of Culture, Qufu Normal University, and Director of the Centre for Confucianism and Literature Studies, a Young Expert of the Taishan Scholars, visiting scholar of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is mainly engaged in the Han, Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties Confucianism, the interaction between the official system and literature.