Yu Cheng is Associate Professor of the International School of Tongji, China. She is also the Director of International Curriculum Program of the international school and Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Confucius Institutes of Tongji University.

Lilei Song is Associate Professor at the Institute of Central and Eastern Europe Studies, Tongji University, China. She is a member of the council of the Shanghai Institute for European Studies and an Assistant Secretary General of the Shanghai Institute for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Lihe Huang is Lecturer and Deputy Head of English Department at Tongji University, China. He has published widely in linguistics and higher education, and undertaken several research projects granted by different institutions. He is a Humboldt Fellow of the Germany-based Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.