LIANG, Chen is a professor at Nanjing University, jointly affiliated withthe School of History of the Republic of China . He serves as the Associate Dean of the School of History, Vice President of the Jiangsu Provincial Historical Society, and Council Member of the Chinese Society for Modern History. Recognized through Chinese national "Ten Thousand Talents Program" as a Leading Talent in Philosophy and Social Sciences (2023) and Young Top-notch Talent (2019).

His research focus on quantitative historical studies, social history, and modern higher education, and intellectual group studies. He has published academic papers in journals including Social Science in Chinese, Historical Studies, Sociological Studies, Modern Chinese History Studies, and‌modern higher education and intellectual group studies and The China Quarterly‌. . His monograph Silent Revolution: A Study of the Social Sources of Students at Peking University and Soochow University(1952-2002)(Commercial Press, 2013; revised ed., SDX Joint Publishing, 2023) received the ‌Youth Achievement Award‌ (Ministry of Education's Outstanding Research Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences) and ‌Second Prize‌ of Jiangsu Province Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences.

Liu Yuping is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of International Education, Minzu University of China, a member of the National Steering Committee for Professional Degree Education in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, a standing council member of the Modernization of Chinese Teaching Association, and the director of the Open Research Center for Language Teaching, Cognition, and Acquisition. She serves as the editor-in-chief of Research on International Chinese Language Education.

Her primary research focus is on international Chinese language education, particularly in teaching and teacher studies. She has led multiple research projects funded by the National Social Science Fund and the Ministry of Education Social Science Fund. She has published monographs such as Teaching Chinese Grammar as a Second Language and Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition Theory, and has authored over 40 academic papers in journals such as World Chinese Teaching, Language Teaching and Research, and Chinese Language and Literature Application. Additionally, she has contributed to the compilation of several textbooks for teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

Luu Bang Quang is a Ph.D. candidate at Beijing Language and Culture University. His primary research focuses on Chinese-Vietnamese language contact, evolution of Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary, Vietnamese language and culture, international Chinese language education and applications of artificial intelligence in cultural expression, translation, and related fields.

LUU BOI TO serves as a Teaching Assistant and Lecturer in the Chinese Language Program at the University of Economics and Finance, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Additionally, she holds positions as a Lecturer at the university's Graduate School and as a Supervisor for Master's and Ph.D. candidates.

Her primary academic interests lie at the intersection of international trade, economic development, and language education, with a particular emphasis on investigating the influence of cultural factors in language pedagogy and their applications within the context of economic globalization.

TANG Lei is currently the Director of the International Sinology Research Center at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a researcher at the Institute of Political Science at the CASS, and the vice dean of the School of Government Management at the CASS. His main research interests include studies of overseas Sinology, international image and soft power, comparative politics, and political theory research. He has presided over more than ten national social science fund projects, including Contemporary American Views on China and Their Historical Origins , as well as key research initiatives supported by CASS and projects commissioned by central government agencies. His representative works include the Series on International China Studies , among others.

Lena Abbas Jawad is currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China (RUC) and a doctoral fellow under the Sino-Foreign Humanities Exchange Ph.D. Program (New Sinology Program). Her main research areas are international communication and national image construction.

Li Xiaojing holds a Ph.D. from the School of Journalism at Fudan University (FDU) and is currently a Young Changjiang Scholar of the Ministry of Education and a tenured Professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), as well as a joint Professor at the Institute of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at SJTU. She has long been engaged in teaching, research, and talent cultivation in the field of journalism, communication, and new media. Her primary research interests include intelligent communication, media trust, and health communication. Representative publications include Information Sources, Media Trust, and Epidemic Prevention and Control during Public Health Emergencies: A Case Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Information Processing , Trust Judgment of Social Media Users: An Eye-Tracking Experimental Study .

LI Yi holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and is currently a pioneering postdoctoral researcher at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China (RUC). His main research areas include eearly history of Chinese cinema, media theory, and digital humanities. He has published multiple articles in core academic journals such as Journal of Beijing Film Academy , China Television , and Film Review . In addition, he has translated and published Backstage Stories from the Fashion Show: An Insider's View of the Real Fashion World and Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists.

Liang Yucheng is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), where he also serves as associate dean of the school, chair of the department of sociology and social work, holding multiple leadership roles such as associate director of the National Governance Research Institute at SYSU, director of the Population Research Institute at SYSU, and director of the Urban Research Center. He is also recognized as a SYSU Yixian Distinguished Professor and serves as a member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). His primary research focuses on computational sociology, social stratification and inequality and social transformation in China.

Liang Hai is an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He also serves as Associate Director of the Computational Social Science Laboratory in the Faculty of Social Science and Associate Director of the Centre for Demographic Studies in the Department of Sociology. Additionally, he is a core member of the Internet Mining Lab at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He was awarded the Young Researcher Award by The CUHK for his academic achievements. His primary research interests include computational social science, political communication, and digital public health. His work has been published in top-tier journals in the field of communication, such as Communication Research, Human Communication Research , and Journal of Communication . He is currently Associate Editor of Communication & Society and serves on the editorial boards of Communication Theory, Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication , and Computational Communication Research .

Liangyu Hu is a lecturer at the School of Literature, Beijing Language and Culture University(BLCU). He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and World Literature from at Peking University’s Department of Chinese Language and Literature, with a joint doctoral training experience at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His primary research areas include cultural studies, film theory, and the Cultural Cold War. His representative works include the Chinese translation of A Geographical History of America, and he has published several articles in academic journals such as Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, Contemporary Cinema, Film Art, and Chinese Writers.

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.

LIU Boyun is currently an associate professor and master's degree supervisor at the School of English and Advanced Translation, Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU). Her main research areas cover literature, translation studies, and intellectual history. She has presided over more than ten research projects, including the key project of the National Social Science Fund titled "A Study on the Intellectual Background of Syriac in Nestorian Literature" , as well as BLCU’s Talent Program and various university-level projects. She has also participated in major projects supported by the Ministry of Education. Furthermore, she has published more than 30 academic papers in core academic journals such as Studies in World Religions , World Religious Cultures , and Religious Studies . Her representative monographs include The Dead Sea Scrolls Today and The Ritual Process . Notable journal articles include Oral and Written Translation Practices in Ancient and Modern Times" and "Interdisciplinary Studies in Translation , among others .

Liu Huiqin is a Research Fellow and Doctoral Supervisor at the Institute of Education, Tsinghua University (THU). She currently serves as the Party Committee Secretary of Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Director of the Ministry of Education-Tsinghua University Joint Research Base for Graduate Education Strategy, and Director of the THU Center for Engineering Education Research. Additionally, she holds several key academic leadership roles: Vice Chair of the Academic Committee, China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Association; Chair of the Graduate Education Studies Professional Committee; Vice President of the Higher Education Management Branch, China Association of Higher Education; Member of the 8th National Committee for Higher Education Institution Establishment Review, Ministry of Education; Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Research in Graduate Education. She has received two National Teaching Achievement Awards, including the Special Prize (highest honor) in 2005 for Innovation and Practice in the Educational Mechanism of Professional Master's Degrees in Engineering.

Her research areas include higher education policy and management, graduate education, engineering education, future education and learning systems.

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.

Luo Rong is an associate professor at the School of Economics, Renmin University of China (RUC). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from The Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and serves as the Associate Editor of China Economic Review. Her research focuses on industrial organization economics, including consumer demand, firm competition and pricing, firm productivity estimation, upstream-downstream contracts and network effects of products. Her work has been published in leading academic journals such as Management Science , International Economic Review , International Journal of Industrial Organization , and Applied Economic s.

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.

Simon Mahony is an Emeritus Professor of Digital Humanities at the Department of Information Studies, University College London (UCL), and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Information Management, Peking University (PKU). He serves as a Corresponding Member of the Sub-Committee on Education and Research for the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Additionally, he is a Research Affiliate at King’s College London (KCL) and was formerly an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London (UCL). Professor Mahony has lectured extensively and published widely on education and pedagogy within the field of Digital Humanities. His research interests include digital humanities, education, communication, information studies, digital storytelling, equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), and the open agenda.

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.

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