WU Yuanyuan is Professor at the School of Marxism Studies and Associate Director of the Research Center for Overseas Chinese Studies, East China Normal University. His research focuses on American Chinese studies, history of overseas Chinese studies, and 20th-century Sino-foreign cultural exchanges. Representative works include American Chinese Studies During the Era of Isolation and Confrontation (2008), Republican-era Chinese Historians in America and American Sinology (2018), and Sino-American Scholarly Exchanges in the Republican Period (2023).