Philip Clart (Ph.D. 1997, University of British Columbia) is Professor of Chinese Culture and History at Leipzig University, Germany, and editor of the Journal of Chinese Religions. His main research areas are popular religion and new religious movements in Taiwan, as well as literature and religions of the late imperial period. His monographs include Han Xiangzi: The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal (University of Washington Press, 2007) and Die Religionen Chinas (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009). He has edited or co-edited several volumes, including most recently From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs: Changing Concepts of xin 信 from Traditional to Modern Chinese. (Brill, 2023).
Laura De Giorgi is Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of China at Ca’Foscari University Venice. Her research interests include the history of media and propaganda in twenty-century China and the history of cultural relations between Europe and China in the Republican and Maoist era. She is currently the President of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)
Wenpeng Xu is an Associate Professor in the School of History and Cultural Heritage at Xiamen University, China. His research lies at the intersection of ceramic archaeology, maritime archaeology, and archaeological science, with a particular focus on the production, circulation, and consumption of Chinese ceramics. He is especially interested in issues of provenance, craft production systems, and the role of ceramics in long-distance maritime exchange within global networks of trade and interaction. Xu has participated in major excavations at kiln sites in China and has investigated assemblages of Chinese ceramics recovered from shipwrecks and overseas contexts. His work has appeared in leading journals such as Antiquity, Journal of Archaeological Science, and Archaeological Research in Asia.
