​He is currently an associate professor of school of History and Culture in Shanxi Normal University, formerly obtained a doctoral degree in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University. From August 2017 to 2018, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his co-supervisor was Professor Nienhauser. His research interests include Qin-Han literature and classical manuscripts. He has published words: Collection of Essays on the Shiji. Correcting Books and Compiling History: Dongguan and the Integration of Eastern Han Imperial Culture; The manuscript era of Shiji: The writing and reading of Shiji before the tenth century AD.

​ ZHAO Shouhui is a Founding Professor of the Chinese Program in the Foreign Language Department of the University of Bergen, Norway, a Ph.D. in linguistics from University of Sydney. He used to hold position of the Chairperson for the Nordic Association for China Sturogram. He serves on the editorial board of academic journals such as Current Issues of Language Planning (Routledge) and Journal of Asia Pacific Communication (John Benjamins), etc. His academic interests include Chinese applied linguistics, Chinese language education in Singapore schools, Chinese character standardization and computerization. He has published over 80 journal papers, many textbooks and co-authored books in Chinese or English, such as Planning Chinese Characters: Evolution, Revolution and Reaction and China through the Dynasties: Cultural and Historical Milestones.

ZHOU Weidi is currently a professor and deputy dean of the School of Economics and Business Administration of Central China Normal University, a member of the Society for World Economics, a member of the Society for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and an expert in the evaluation of the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Fund. His recent research interests are world economics, Eurasian political economy and Russian issues, involving international trade and investment, country and regional economy, transition economics and other research fields. His representative works include The Economic Influence of China’s New Energy Resources Utilizaton Efficience: an Empirical Analysis; The Government and the market: the mechanisms and institutions of Eurasian integration in a global growing hypercompetition; Eвразийская экономика и идея многополярного мира в контексте глобализациии и регионализации. Интеллектуальный капитал в экономике знаний; моделей экономического роста в Росссии и Китае: рестроспектива и перспективы. Сакнт-Петербург, Инфо-да; анлдиз aперeходных моделей экономического роста в Росссии и Китае: рестроспектива и перспективы.

Zhu Hu is the Dean of the School of History of Renmin University of China, and Editorial Board Member of The Qing History Journal. He is mainly engaged in the study of the history of disasters in the Qing Dynasty, modern social and economic history, and the history of the late Qing Dynasty. He has presided and participated in a number of major projects of the National Philosophy and Social Science Project and of the Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base of the Ministry of Education. His representative works include Local Mobility and Its Transcendence: Late Qing Relief and the Metabolism of Modern China (2006) and MinBaoWuYu: Modern Chinese Relief, 1876-1912 (2012), etc. His representative publications include From Interlude to Prelude: Famine Relief in Hejian Prefecture and Overcoming a Crisis in Sheng Xuanhuai’s Early Self-strengthening Career, From Relief Affairs to Western Affairs: the Rise of Gentry-Merchants of the Jiangnan Region in the Western-style Enterprises, etc.

ZHU XIAOQI is an assistant professor at the School of International Relations of Renmin University of China, researcher at the Institute of National Development and Strategy, and researcher at the Contemporary Political Parties Research Platform. Her research focuses on contemporary Chinese diplomacy, Japanese politics and diplomacy, and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region. Her major publications are BRICS Cooperation: Out of the Golden Road to Build a Better World, The Political Basis and Cooperation Achievements of China and Japan in Developing Maritime Relations, Japan's Political Culture and Electoral System, The Change of Understanding in Southeast Asia in Japanese Sea Power Thought, An Analysis of Japan's New Maritime Strategy.

​ZHU Yong is a Professor and Deputy Dean at the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University. His research focuses on: teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages, second language acquisition, and cross-cultural communication. He has published nearly 60 papers and two books, including Research on Beijing-flavored Literature Grading for European and American Chinese Learners, edited more than 10 textbooks such as Chinese Everyday Reading, Oral Chinese in the New Era, and “Case Trilogy” such as Case Studies and Analyses of International Chinese Language Teaching.

Esteban ZOTTELE is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at Changzhou University, and a researcher at the China- Veracruzana Research Centre at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.