Igor Radev is a Chair Scholar and translator at the Knowledge Centre of Sinology the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, holding a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Beijing Normal University. He has been awarded the 15th Special Contribution Award to Chinese Publications (2021), the "13 Noemvri" Prize - the highest literary and publishing honor conferred by the Skopje Municipality (2022), and the "Grigor Prlicev" Award for Best Translation in Macedonian Literature for his Macedonian rendition of Laozi's Daodejing (2012).His research focus on Chinese philology, classical Chinese literature, comparative poetics, and cultural exchanges along the Silk Road. His major translations include Laozi'sDaodejing (in Macedonian) and The Book ofOdes (in Serbian), etc.