Naoko Taguchi is a professor in the Department of English at Northern Arizona University, where she teaches applied linguistics and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) courses. Her main research interests include second language pragmatics, intercultural competence, technology-mediated language learning and English-medium education. Her major scholarly publications include Applied Linguistics: Pragmatics Volume (co-editor), Second Language Pragmatics (co-author), Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics, Context, Individual Differences, and Pragmatic Competence. She is also one of the chief editors of Language Learning and Applied Pragmatics.

​ Ker Pong Thock is the former Head of the Department of Chinese Language and Culture and Associate Professor at Universiti Sains Malaysia (2011-August 2015), PH.D. in philosophy from Universiti Malaya (UM). His main areas of research are Malaysian Chinese politics, Chinese communities, Chinese language education, race relations and Southeast Asian Chinese and contemporary China. His representative publications include Sixty Years of Turbulence: Research Anthology on Malaysian Chinese Society (2022), Challenges and Opportunities of Contemporary Malaysian Chinese Education (2022), Malay Political Hegemony: Perspectives of the Chinese" (2007), and "Malaysian Chinese Politics and Politicization, 1957-2008 (2016).

Former Danish Consul General in Shanghai, serving in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, private enterprises, and Danish educational institutions, former director of Copenhagen Business Confucius Classroom, Niels Brock International. Fields of research include Danish-China trade and investment, outward investment by Chinese companies. Major publications include China in the 1980s, “To Point At the Moon-- (Only to See Your Own Finger),” From a Strong Past to a Dynamic Present. Danes and Danish Companies in the Greater Shanghai Region 1846 to 2008.

TONG Zhihui is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Agriculture and Rural Development of Renmin University of China, a doctor of political science at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the director of the Center for Rural Governance Research of Renmin University of China. His research interests include rural development and rural governance. Representative monographs are Election Events and Village Politics. Representative Papers: "Practical Moral Consciousness in Rights Claims - Starting from Understanding Farmers' Election Petition Letters" (China Rural Studies, No. 10, 2013); “Sectors, Capital Going to the Countryside, and the Organized Path of China's Small Farmers’ Economy: And Questioning the Path of Professional Cooperative Road Questioned," Open Times, 2009, No. 4, TONG Zhihui and WEN Tiejun).

Son Tung Tran is anative teacher and administrative coordinator of the Confucius Institute at Hanoi University, Vietnam, a Vietnamese Luo Hong Young Scholar, PhD in Intercultural Communication from Wuhan University. His main research areas areintercultural communication, international Chinese education, and image of China. He has participated in several research projects and presented at several international conferences.

QIU Yexiang, a professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and a doctoral supervisor at Henan University, mainly engages in cross-cultural comparative research between China and the West, and missionary literature research. He has led four national projects and published more than 20 papers. He has also published monographs such as Translation and Interpretation of Confucian Analects by James Legge from the Perspective of Scriptural Reasoning and Research on Biblical Keywords, as well as co-authored works such as Shakespeare and the Bible.

Leonard van der Kuijp is a Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Harvard University, Chairman of the Committee on Inner Asian and Altai Studies, Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He assisted E. Gene Smith in founding the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC), now the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). He has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship (1993) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2016). His areas of academic research include Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies, Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, Tibetan cultural history, and pre-modern Sino-Tibetan Tibetan-Mongolian political and religious relations. His major scholarly works include Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry: A Guide to the Arts of the 17th Century (co-authored), and Bcom Idan ral gri (1227-1305) on Indian Buddhist Logic and Epistemology (co-authored).

Professor Hans van Ess is a renowned sinologist and Mongolist scholar, with research interests in Chinese history, Confucianism and Central Asian studies related to China and Mongolia. Early studies in Chinese studies, Turkish studies and philosophy, in 1992 received a doctorate in literature from the University of Hamburg, in 1998 as director of the Sinology Department of the University of Munich, served as director of the Institute for Cultural Studies, and vice president of the University of Munich since 2013; he becomes honorary professor of Sun Yat-sen University from 2014-2017, and the chairman of the Max Weber Foundation in Germany in 2015, member of the scientific advisory board of the Asian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Editorial of T'oung Pao, Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Guoxue xuekan, and founder of the series of publications Lun Wen. He is the author of Politik und Geschichtsschreibung im alten China. Pan-ma i-t'ung, one of the most important works in the study of the Western on Shiji and Hanshu.

Ph.D. student from Vietnam at the School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China. His research fields include new media studies and national image studies.

Susan Wachira is a Ph.D. student at Kenyatta University. Her research focus on applied linguistics. Research project: Vocabulary learning strategies of Chinese as a foreign Language learner in Kenyan universities.

Distinguished Professor of the School of Foreign Languages, Hunan Normal University, Doctor of Sinology at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, member of the European Academy of Sciences, Director of the International Center for Sinology, European Union Jean Monnet Chair Professor, president of German-Chinese Association, president of World Association of Sinology Studies. His research interests include A Dream of Red Mansions, comparative literature, translation and cross-cultural literature, modern and contemporary Chinese literature. He has written 66 books, translated 33 books, published 33 papers in both Chinese and English. He won the China Friendship Award in 2020.

Wu Yang is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of the School of Chinese Classic Studies, Renmin University of China. His research interests include classical Chinese philology, ancient Chinese literature, ancient Chinese intellectual history, Pre-Qin and Han literature, and the study of the Book of Songs. His publications include Researches on Zhu Xi's Ideas on Book of Songs (monograph); Anthology of the Manuscripts of Ren Jian Ci Hua (Edited).

​WU Yongyi is a Professor of School of International Chinese Studies at the East China Normal University, a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, and Vice President and Secretary-General of the Shanghai Linguistic Society. His main research interests are Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, International Chinese Language Education, Second Language Acquisition, Theory and Pedagogy of Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language, Cultivation and Development of Chinese Language Teachers, etc. His main works include Teaching Methods for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language; Research on Teaching Methods for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language; Selected Essays of Famous Chinese Teaching Experts: A Collection of Wu Yongyi’s Essays.

​ WU Zhongwei is Professor at the School of International Cultural Exchange, Fudan University, National Outstanding Teacher of Chinese as a Foreign Language (2002), Council Member and Vice Chairperson of the Curriculum and Teaching Materials Committee of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching. His main research areas are modern Chinese grammar, teaching Chinese as a foreign language and Chinese language education textbook development. His major works include A Study on the Sentence Topic in Modern Chinese; How to Teach Grammar: Theory and Practice of Grammar Teaching, Task-Based Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language (co-author), Teaching Methods of Chinese as a Foreign Language (textbook, co-edited); An Introduction to Modern Chinese (co-edited), and Practical Chinese Grammar for Teachers (co-edited).

Prof. XU Xingwu is the Dean of the Faculty of Literature at Nanjing University. He received his PhD in Literature from Nanjing University in 1993. He has been a visiting scholar of the Yanjing Society of Harvard University, a visiting scholar of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a visiting scholar of the Tian Jiabing Visiting Scholarship Programme, a visiting professor of the Department of Humanities and Sociology of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a visiting researcher of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Society of National Taiwan University. He serves as a member of the Chinese Language Teaching Steering Committee of Universities under the Ministry of Education, vice president of the National College Chinese Research Institute, council member of the Society of Wenxuan, and executive editor of the Literary Study. His main research interests are ancient Chinese thought and culture, and ancient Chinese literature. His main works include Prophetic Literature and Cultural Construction in Han Dynasty, Commentarial Biography of Liu Xiang, Formation of Early Classics and Cultural Self-Consciousness, etc. He has presided over the National Philosophy and Social Science Project "Prophetic Literature and Cultural Construction between Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties", "Study on the Literature of 'General Idea of the Five Classics'".

​Native of Shangrao, Jiangxi Province. He received his PhD from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now he is a lecturer in the College of Humanities of Shanghai Normal University, mainly engaged in the research of excavated documents and early Chinese text culture.

ZANG Fengyu is the Dean of the School of Philosophy of Renmin University of China, professor and doctoral supervisor. He has been selected as one of the leading talents in philosophy and social sciences under the National Special Support Program for High-level Talents, one of the "Four Groups of Talents", and one of the "Distinguished Scholars" Distinguished Professors of Renmin University of China. He is the chief expert of the Interdisciplinary Platform on Modernization of State Governance and Applied Ethics of Renmin University of China, and the chief editor of Philosophers and Marxist Philosophy Review. He is also the vice president of China Dialectical Materialism Research Society and the president of Marxist Political Philosophy Research Society, the vice chairman of the Applied Ethics Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education, the secretary general of the Nishan Joint Graduate School of Chinese Outstanding Traditional Cultures, and a member of the editorial board of Philosophical Research, Journal of Renmin University of China, and Teaching and Research. His research focuses on Marxist philosophy and political philosophy. His main publications are Introduction to Marx's Political Philosophy, Study of Marx's Political Philosophy in Textual Context, Marx and Smith and Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment, The French Enlightenment and Marx's Theory of Human Emancipation.

Zhang Longxi is a Distinguished Professor at Hunan Normal University, Ph.D. of Harvard University, taught at the University of California, Riverside, the City University of Hong Kong. He is a 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. He published more than 20 books and numerous articles in English and Chinese on Chinese-Western comparative studies. Among his numerous publications are The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West, Mighty Opposites, Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West, Unexpected Affinities, and From Comparison to World Literature.

D. in Cultural Studies from Paul Valery University of Montpellier, France, Researcher and Resident Coordinator of the Institute for Cultural Studies (IRIEC) of Paul Valery University of Montpellier, France. Teaching and research teacher of Cultural Studies at the School of Chinese Law, Renmin University of China, Assistant Director of the Institute of French and Francophone Studies (French side) of Renmin University of China. Visiting Scholar of the French Higher Institute of Social Sciences (EHESS), the Collège de France, and the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures (INALCO). She is a member of the Overseas Sinology Research Society of the Chinese Society of Comparative Literature. She has taught at the University of La Rochelle, France.

​ZHANG Xinsheng is a Professor of Chinese and Director of the Center for Modern Languages in the School of Liberal Arts of Richmond University, UK, an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists and Vice-President of the European Association of Chinese Teaching (EACT). He was the Director of SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) Language Centre, University of London and the Director of London Confucius Institute. His research interests are Bilingual education (English & Chinese), Chinese cultural studies, Chinese language acquisition, Cross cultural business development, Cultural linguistics, History of language learning & teaching, Intercultural communications, Language policy, Teacher training, Translation. He has published more than 60 papers and written more than 20 textbooks, such as Chinese in Steps series