Kevin J. Turner is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests include Chinese and comparative philosophy. He has published in Philosophy East and West, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Asian Philosophy, and Asian Studies. He is the translator of Excavated Texts and a New Portrait of the Early Confucians by Wang Zhongjiang, and Family and Filiality: An Intercultural Perspective by Zhang Xianglong.

​VILLAGRÁN, Ignacio is an associate Professor of International Political Science at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Buenos Aires (UBA); Director of the Argentina-China Study Center at UBA, and an Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS).

Vangeli, Anastas holds a Ph.D. from the Contemporary China Studies Program at Renmin University of China. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business. His research interests lie at the intersection of geopolitics and globalization, with a focus on the impacts of disruptive ideas and technologies, and the relations between China and the West. His research has been published in Journal of International Business Policy, Industrial Marketing Management, China and World Economy, Journal of Contemporary China, and others. He is Associate Editor of Asia Europe Journal. He is co-editor of Yugoslavia and China: Histories, Legacies, Afterlives (Routledge, 2025).

Vincent Brussee is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University. His research focuses on the application of natural language processing for contemporary Chinese policy analysis. He is the author of the acclaimed book Social Credit (Palgrave Macmillan 2023).

WANG Jianhua is currently the Dean and Professor at the School of International Cultural Exchange, Renmin University of China (RUC), where he also serves as a Ph.D. supervisor and a researcher at the Institute for Digital Humanities Research. He is concurrently the Vice President of the School of Foreign Languages at Huaqiao University (HQU), and was formerly Vice President of Shanxi Normal University (SXNU)and a member of Sanjin Talents Program. He also serves as theVice President of the Cognitive Translation Professional Committee of the China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese and the Vice President of the Language Cognition and Intelligent Development Professional Committee of the Modern Language Association. His main research areas include cognitive translation studies and translation and cultural communication studies. In recent years, he has published over 30 academic papers in core foreign language journals such as Foreign Language Teaching and Research and Chinese Translators Journal , and authored more than 10 books. He has presided over two international social science projects and one post-funding project of the Ministry of Education. His representative works include 160 Writing Essays and 90 Reading Passages for Beginners . Notable journal articles include "Interaction Evaluation on Handheld Mobile Interfaces" and "Application-Oriented English Teaching."

WONG HUI SAN is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology of Art and Folk Literature at Fudan University. Her primary research focuses on transnational religious phenomena, with particular emphasis on the Jiuhuang Belief System.

WAN Xing is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative and World Literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China (RUC). His primary research interests include Western literature, Sino-Western intellectual dialogue, and film and television literature, with a strong focus on interdisciplinary theoretical integration. He has participated in major research projects, including those funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China, and has published multiple articles in CSSCI-indexed journals such as Chinese Comparative Literature and China Television .

Wang Jun is a Professor in the Department of Information Management at Peking University (PKU) and serves as the Director of the PKU Digital Humanities Research Center. His academic work spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, including data analysis, text mining, knowledge organization, user behavior, information product design, digital libraries, and digital humanities. Currently, he focuses on applying deep learning and knowledge graph technologies to reconstruct China's traditional classical texts.

He has led numerous research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation. In 2005, he received the OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant (USA), and in 2020, his collaborative interdisciplinary project with Harvard University’ s CBDB Group, "Research on the Construction of a Knowledge Graph for the History of Chinese Confucian Scholarship," was supported by a Key International Cooperation Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

His research has been published in leading journals and conferences such as Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information , Journal of Library Science in China , and Journal of Chinese Information Processing .

He was selected for the Ministry of Education’ s Program for New Century Excellent Talents in 2005, awarded the Ministry of Education’ s Outstanding Achievement Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences in 2006, and honored as "Beijing Outstanding Teacher" in 2013.

Wanying Hu, who holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from the School of Chinese as a Second Language at Peking University, is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of International Education, Minzu University of China. Her research interests include bilingual processing, second language acquisition, and language processing.

Wei Jin is currently an Associate Professor at University of Sanya. She holds a dual academic background as a Ph.D. candidate in ‌Linguistics and Applied Linguistics‌ at Sichuan University and a Master’s student in ‌International Chinese Language Education‌ at East China Normal University. Her primary research interests include international Chinese language education, linguistics, and digital humanities. She previously taught at the Confucius Institute at the University of Turin in Italy. Dr. Jin has received several honors, including the National Third Prize and the First Prize in the Hainan Provincial Division in the inaugural Ministry of Education Teaching Innovation Competition for University Faculty, as well as two Provincial Second Prizes and two University-level First Prizes for Teaching Achievement. Her representative publication includes the paper “Several Issues in Identifying Names and Objects in Shang and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions.”

HUANG Weizhong is currently the vice dean of the School of Chinese Classics director and professor of the Institute of Historical and Linguistic Studies of the Western Regions at Renmin University of China (RUC). He also concurrently serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Historical and Linguistic Studies of Western Regions . His main research areas are Tibetan and Dunhuang Studies, with a particular focus on the history and the study of Sino-Tibetan cultural exchanges. He has served as the chief expert of a major project funded by the National Social Science Fund, titled "Classification, Collation, and Research of Tibetan Documents from Dunhuang." His representative work include A Study of Tibetan Vo w Texts from the 8th–9th Centuries: Center ing on Dunhuang Tibetan Vow Texts .

Wu Fei is currently a Qiushi Distinguished Professor and doctoral supervisor at Zhejiang University (ZJU). He serves as Deputy Director of the Division of Humanities, Director of the Center for International Communication Studies, and Joint Professor at the School of Cyber Science and Technology at ZJU. He is also a recipient of the Special Government Allowance of the State Council. Professor Wu previously served as Dean of the School of Media and International Culture at ZJU and Executive Vice Dean of the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU). His main research interests include communication and society, media law, and journalism theory. Representative publications include Theories, Current Status, and Development Trends of International Communication, Balance and Compromise: Studies on Western Communication Law , Studies on Journalism Professionalism , and Firepit, Teaching, Television: An Analysis of Social Communication Networks in an Ethnic Minority Community .

Xiang Jing holds a Ph.D. in History from Peking University (PKU)and is currently the Director of the Digital Historiography Research Center at University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (UCASS), an associate professor in the School of History, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Her research areas include Ming Dynasty history and local social history. In recent years, her research interests have focused on rural history and digital humanities during the Song and Ming dynasties. She has presided over multiple research projects, including those funded by the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education, the Beijing Youth Talent Plan, major university-level projects at University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and projects from humanities laboratories. She has published more than ten academic papers in journals such as Guangming Daily and Ancient Civilizations .

XU Yongming is currently a professor and Ph.D. Supervisor in the School of Humanities, Zhejiang University (ZJU). He holds the title of Distinguished Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program awarded by the Ministry of Education and serves as Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at ZJU’s College of Humanities. He also concurrently serves as the director of the “Academic Map Publishing Platform,” the “Smart Classics Platform,” and the “Cloud Siku Intelligent Q&A System,”the vice president of the Ming Dynasty Literature Society (preparatory), a council member of the China Popular Literature Society, the vice president of the Professional Committee on Intelligent Development and Utilization of Ancient Books of the China Ancient Books Protection Association, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Harvard University CBDB database, and an editorial board member of the journals Digital Humanities and Journal of Digital Humanities Research .

His main research areas include literature of Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynastyand digital humanities. He has authored, compiled, and edited more than 20 works, including A Study of Writers from Wuzhou from the Yuan to Early Ming , Chronological Biography of Song Lian , and Textual Research and Transmission of Ancient Chinese Drama . He has led several major projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, including A Complete Bibliography of Anthologies from Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty (later-stage project), A Complete Bibliography of Existing Ancient Works from Zhejiang (key project), and Big Data and Platform Construction for Ming Dynasty Literature (major project).

YAO Shuang holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Tsinghua University, previously served as a Shuimu Scholar at Tsinghua University's Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences , and is currently a Lecturer in Comparative Literature and World Literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China. Her research focus on Chinese ethnic minority languages and literatures (particularly Tibetan studies), Tibetan art and textual studies, and Sino-Tibetan Buddhism and philologyresearch. Her co-editor work What Is Philology ? and articles in core journals such as Literary Review , Studies of Ethnic Literature , China Tibetology , and Historical and Philological Studies of China's Western Regions .

YIN Feizhou holds a Ph.D. in History from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is currently a “Xiaoxiang Scholar,” Distinguished Professor, and Certified Translation Expert at Hunan Normal University. He serves as a doctoral supervisor and is the academic leader of Translation Studies at the School of Foreign Languages and Publishing Studies at the School of Journalism and Communication. His primary research focuses on the publication, translation, and dissemination of classical Chinese texts in foreign languages. He has led a total of five major national and provincial research projects, including the Major Project of the National Social Science Fund, Collation and Study of English Translations and Dissemination of Pre-Qin Philosophical Classics , and the Key Commissioned Project of the Hunan Provincial Social Science Planning Office, Strategies and Layout for the Internationalization of Chinese Publishing Along the Belt and Road , among others. His representative works include An Annotated Bibliography of the Chinese Classics in the Bilingual Chinese-English Series Library of Chinese Classics and Studies on the International Communication of Chinese Books . His notable papers include Selected Poems and Essays of Zeng Guofan (Chinese-English Bilingual Edition) and China’s Renaissance , among others.

Yang Muzhi graduated from the Chinese Language and Literature Department of Peking University (PKU), has held prominent positions including Vice Minister of the General Administration of Press and Publication, Senior Editor at Zhonghua Book Company, President and Party Committee Secretary of China Publishing Group, and served as a delegate to the 4th and 10th National People's Congresses, where he was also a member of the Education, Science, Culture, and Public Health Committee.

Since 1990s, he has overseen several major national publishing projects, serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Library of Chinese Classics , Chair of the Working Committee for the Revision Project of the Twenty-Four Histories and Draft History of Qing , Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) , and Editor-in-Chief of Research on the History of Chinese Publishing . His scholarly works include Essays on Publishing , The Art of Editing , On Editorial Competence , and My Publishing Vision . He has also edited and compiled influential reference works such as Comprehensive Dictionary of Chinese Reference Books , On the Collation and Publishing of Ancient Texts , and General Catalogue of Chinese Ancient Texts , etc.

Dr. Hai Yang is an assistant professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau (UM). His research fucus on the international dimension of China’s political communications and the politics of (de)legitimation in global governance. His research output has appeared or is forthcoming in China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, International Studies Review, International Affairs, Global Policy, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, among other outlets.

YANG, Huilin is a Professor of School of Liberal Arts, former Vice President of Renmin University of China‌;

Main research fields include: Comparative Literature and World Literature, Western Literary Theory, Religious Studies, and Christianity. Major publications include: At the Boundary of Literature and Theology, Searching for the Meaning, etc. The collection of his papers in English include Christianity in China: the Work of Yang Huilin， China, Christianity and Questions of Culture, which was awarded Christianity Today's 2015 Book Awards in the United States.

Yang Guang is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Communication, Shenzhen University (SZU), and concurrently serves as she also serves as Associate Dean. She has led multiple research projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation, as well as provincial and municipal grants, publishing numerous high-quality Chinese and English research articles in top-tier academic journals including Journalism & Communication Research. Her scholarly contributions have been recognized by multiple government and academic awards, including two Second Prizes in the 8th Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences, as well as Second and Third Prizes in the 10th Shenzhen Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences. Additionally, she has been honored with titles such as Shenzhen Outstanding Teacher. Her primary research interests include opinion polarization, algorithmic news, internet civility, and digital civilization.