Liu Yueman is a Distinguished Wu Yuzhang Professor‌12 and ‌Ph.D. Supervisor‌ at Renmin University of China (RUC). She currently holds the following key leadership positions: Dean, School of Information Resource Management, Renmin University of China; Deputy Director, Digital Humanities Research Institute, RUC; Director, National Archives Administration Key Laboratory for Multimodal Archival Preservation and Development; Deputy Secretary-General, National Technical Committee on Information and Documentation Standardization; Vice Chair, Committee on Scientific Archives & Research Data Management, China Archives Society; Vice Chair, Digital Humanities Committee, China Index Society. She is recognized as "New Century Excellent Talent" by the Ministry of Education and National Leading Expert in Archival Science. Her research focus on electronic records management, digital archives, computational archival science, data governance, and digital humanities. Her representative work includes Strategic Research on Digital Archives Construction in China: An Ecosystem Perspective.

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Lokhande Sumedh is a Senior Assistant Professor (level III) at Advanced Institute of Social Sciences (AISS), and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies and Policy Research Mumbai.Dr. Sumedh Lokhande was the first Indian Ph.D. jointly cultivated by the Confucius China Studies Program (20172019). He has led an international collaborative research project on the Belt and Road Initiative with Dalian Maritime University and is presently investigating the intricacies of India–China economic relations.

Lusine Safaryan, who holds a Ph.D. from the School of Chinese as a Second Language at Peking University, is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University. Her main research interests include language acquisition, language learning mechanisms, and the acquisition of Chinese as a foreign language.

MACKERRAS, Colin, Professor Emeritus of Griffith University, Australia. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1999 and, in June 2007, he was appointed as an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia. In 2014, he gained a Chinese Government Friendship Award and won a Special China Book Award in 2016.

His research encompass Chinese modern history, theatre, ethnic minorities (past and present) and Western images of China.

His authored books include: The Rise of the Peking Opera (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972); China’s Ethnic Minorities and Globalisation (Routledge Curzon, 2003); China in Transformation, 1900-1949 (2nd Edition, Pearson Education, 2008), among others. In addition, he has edited numerous books and written many refereed journal articles and book chapters.

Nguyen Quang Hung is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in International Relations at Renmin University of China. He holds a B.A. in Chinese Studies (2019) from Vietnam National University, Hanoi, and an M.A. in International Politics (2022) from Beijing Language and Culture University.

NGUYEN, QUOC TU holds a Ph.D. in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages from Beijing Language and Culture University. He is currently Head of the Department of Foreign Languages at Dong Do University, Vietnam. While also managing educational programs at the Dong Do University Foreign Languages Department and the Learn & Excel Education Group. His research focuses on international Chinese language education in Vietnam. He has been recognized with multiple honors including Innovative Paper Award at the World Conference on Chinese Language Teaching, Grand Champion of the "Chinese Teaching Heroes Cup" competition and First Prize in the 2019 "Global Youth Dialogue on a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind" speech contest.

Dankyung No holds a PhD in Philosophy from Peking University, with a doctoral thesis titled A Study of the Theory of Mind and Nature in Pre-Qin Daoism. His postdoctoral research examines the interplay between personal liberty and societal structures, while his present scholarly inquiry prioritizes issues of elderly dignity.

Nguyen Khanh is currently teaching at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh city. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Vietnam National University, Hanoi. His primary research interests include international politics, Southeast Asian international relations, the South China Sea issue, and Chinese foreign policy. His representative publications include International Cooperation in the South China Sea for the First Two Decades of the 21st Century from the Perspective of Constructivism, India–Australia Relations in the Context of China’s Rise, Vietnam–China Relations in the Context of COVID-19: Situation and Prospect, and The Presence of Major Powers in the South China Sea from an International Relations Perspective.

NIANG, Ibrahima is an assistant lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar, Senegal). Holds a Ph.D. in Sociology fromthe same institution.

He serves on the organizing committee of the 2025 Africa-Asia Con-festival (Dakar).

His research and pedagogical practice center on economic sociology, economic policy, international relations, and China geopolitics in Africa.

His major publications include Between Africanism and Orientalism: Historical and Intellectual Trajectories of sociological Practices in China and Senegal (2020), Chinese Enterprises in Senegal and Social Justice: Intercultural Management and Conflicts (2020).

Nicolas Standaert is a professor and dean of the Department of Chinese Studies, University of K.U. Leuven, and member of the Belgium Royal Academy of Sciences. His research primarily focuses on the history of Sino-European cultural relations during the late Ming and early Qing. His notable works include Inculturation: The Gospel and Cultures,Methodology in View of Contact Between Cultures: The China Case in the 17thCentury, and The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe, etc.

PAUDEL ANIL is a Ph.D. candidate in diplomacy at the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. His primary research focuses on international relations in South Asia, particularly the complex interaction patterns among China, India, and Nepal.

Patricia Castro Obando holds a PhD in Anthropology with a specialization in China, through a joint program developed at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Peking University in China with a Hanban scholarship. She is currently a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú where she teaches courses on Chinese topics. She is a member of the Network of Sinologists and Translators of Chinese Literature and Culture, a member of the Latin American Regional Council of Sinologists, and a member of the International Order and Regional Orders Research Group. She worked as a lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages at Peking University and a news anchor and editor at CGTN Spanish channel. She has been recognized by the Government of Peru through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012) and the Ministry of Women's Promotion and Human Development (2002).

She has published Passionate about Peru: 18 stories of Chinese characters with the same Peruvian heart(2013), We the Hakka. Trajectories in China and Peru(2021) and Loving Love. Anthology of 38 Chinese women poets of antiquity(2024) co-authored with Wang Shishen, etc.

Perinçek Karavit, Kiraz is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Asian Studies Center of the Boğaziçi University. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Boğaziçi University and a Master’s degree in Society, Science, and Technology from Université Louis Pasteur. She was awarded the Best Paper Prize at the 7th World Conference on Sinology(Suzhou, China, 2021). She previously served as a foreign expert in the Turkish Section of China Radio International and worked as a journalist and editor-in-chief formultiple print media outlets and television channels in Istanbul, Turkey. Her research focuses on cultural and artistic exchanges along the Silk Roads, with particular emphasis on the role of Chinese history, art, and culture in this process. Representative publications include Mobile Art along the Silk Roads: Mehmed Siyah Kalem Paintings andAn Exhibition as a Space Where History, Archaeology, and Ideology Meet the Public: The Case of "Archéologie en Alsace et en Moselle au Temps de l’Annexion (1940-44)."

Phan Vu Tuan Anh is a senior lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam. His research interests include linguistics, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, big data, and natural language processing technologies. His published works include A Reference Grammar of Hanoi Vietnamese: A Systemic Functional Perspective (China Social Sciences Press, 2015) and Sino-Vietnamese Interpreting for International Communication (Vietnam News Agency Publishing House, 2024).

Phanata, Stephanie is currently a Ph.D. candidate in International Chinese Education at East China Normal University and a lecturer in the Chinese Department at Universitas Sebelas Maret. She previously served as the Indonesian Director of the Confucius Institute at Universitas Sebelas Maret.

Main research areas: Focusing on the development of international Chinese education, the "Belt and Road" initiative, Confucius Institutes, training of Chinese language teachers, and ontological research in second language acquisition.

Journal publications: The Literal Translation of Sclerometer User Manual from Chinese to Indonesia; Proficiency Test Training for Mandarin Learners in Surakarta, among others.

Qi Su is currently a Tenured Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Researcher at the School of Foreign Languages and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Peking University. She also serves as the Deputy Director of the Digital Humanities Research Center‌ at Peking University.

Her main research interests include computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), corpus linguistics, and digital humanities. She has published extensively in top-tier international conferences such as Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP), and The International Conference of World Wide Web (WWW), as well as in journals including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Neural Networks, Neural Computing, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), and the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL).

Dr. Su is the Associate Editor of the Studies in NLP series by Cambridge University Press and a member of the editorial board for the journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society. She has led or participated in various research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Beijing Social Science Foundation, and the National Key R&D Program of China.

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.

RAJABLOO Mohadeseh is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at Shanghai International Studies University and holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Zhengzhou University. Her main research interests lie in international relations, particularly the relationship between China and West Asian countries, including Iran. She has presented several papers at international conferences in Tehran, such as An Analysis of China’s Governance under the Framework of the Three Global Initiatives and China’s Security Architecture in West Asia Based on the New Security Concept The Need for Comprehensive Sino-Iranian Cooperation, a paper published in the Zhomhor journal. She also translated Reflections on the Analects from Chinese into Persian, demonstrating her commitment to fostering cultural and intellectual exchange between the two civilizations.

RELIGA Małgorzata is currently the Head of the Department of Sinology at the University of Warsaw (UW). She is also engaged in the translation of both modern and classical Chinese literature, including works such as Mengzi, Han Shaogong, and Mo Yan. Her main research interests include Confucian thought and Chinese religions (Daoism, the White Lotus tradition, and "precious scrolls"). Courses she teaches include Chinese Philosophy and Religions, and Classical Chinese Language.

Rajiv Ranjit is an assistant professor at Kathmandu University, Nepal, Ph.D. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from Xiamen University.

His research interests are Chinese language education and Chinese language and culture communication.