Professor William Nienhauser, Halls-Bascom Chair Professor of Classical Chinese Literature, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, is recognised, both in China and overseas, as a renowned master sinologist. His expertise covers many fields and includes translation and research on The Grand Scribe's Records and research into poetic songs and legends of the Tang dynasty as well as ancient novels. He has been awarded the Humboldt Foundation Prize for lifetime achievement.
Professor Edward L. Shaughnessy is Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago, and a world leading philologist, paleographer, and historian. His major fields of research are Western Zhou and Warring States cultural history, paleography, and study of the Classic of Changes.
Professor Chen Jian, Center for the Study of Excavated Documents and Ancient Philology, Fudan University, also serves as the Director of the Society of Chinese Paleography. His research interest lies in Chinese paleography and excavated ancient texts, with a specialty in deciphering oracle bone script, bronze script, and the Warring States period scripts, and in preparing critical editions of bamboo and silk texts.
Professor Wolfgang Behr, Traditional China Chair, Asia-Orient-Institute, The University of Zurich, has a wide range of research interests, including old Chinese phonology, morphology, etymology and paleography, Sino-Tibetan linguistics, external contacts of old and ancient Chinese, history of Chinese philology, epistemological foundations of historical linguistics, pre-Qin archaeology and early Chinese history, early Chinese historiography, etc. He has also published prolifically in the form of journal publications and monographs.
Rudolf G. Wagner is Senior Professor of Institute of Sinology, Heidelberg University, Germany and Center Associate, John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. He was one of the founding directors of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University. As an intellectual historian, Prof. Wagner has a strong interest in the political implications of philosophical and literary works as well as the transcultural interaction between China and the world in areas such as key concepts, political symbols, and institutions.
Professor Jiang Yin has served as a Research Fellow in the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for decades. He focused his early research on Tang poetry and achieved major breakthroughs in the study of Mid-Tang poetry. More recently, he has devoted his attention to classical Chinese poetics and its history, with an emphasis on the understudied Qing Poetics. As a scholar with broad vision and innovative ideas, Professor Jiang has been a driving force in
international studies of classical Chinese literary criticism and poetics.
Professor Lin Ching-chang is a leading scholar in the study of Confucian classics. As an Adjunct Research Fellow from the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, he also serves as an Academic Advisor of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology. He has been extremely prolific over the years and made a remarkable contribution to the development of Confucian Classics Study in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He also has research expertise in Japanese Sinology and classical Chinese philology.
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