YUE Daiyun （1931-）is a Professor of Modern Literature and Comparative Literature at Peking University. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from McMaster University in 1990 and earned another at Kansai University in 2006. Among the list of her impressive achievements and appointments, YUE is Editor-in-Chief of Dialogue Transculturel；Honorary President of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association （CCLA）；previous Director of the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture at Peking University（1984-1998）；previous President of CCLA 1990-2017); and previous Vice President of ICLA(1990-1997). She founded the first graduate program in Comparative Literature in mainland China (including programs for master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral students). In 2015, CCLA awarded YUE the Lifetime Academic Achievement Award in recognition of her monumental and pioneering contributions to the field of Chinese Comparative Literature.

ZHANG Longxi holds an MA in English from Peking University and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. He had taught at Peking, Harvard, and the University of California, Riverside, and is currently Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong, and a Distinguished Professor at the Yenching Academy of Peking University. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in 2009 and a foreign member of Academia Europaea in 2013. He is President of the International Comparative Literature Association for 2016-19. He serves as an Advisory Editor of New Literary History, and an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Literature. He has published more than 20 books and numerous articles in both English and Chinese in East-West comparative studies.