University of Macau

Founder and Director

Dimitra Amarantidou teaches Chinese and comparative philosophy at the University of Macau. Her research explores irony, humour, and paradox in early Chinese thought. She is translator of contemporary Chinese philosophical works, Editor for the English edition of Wenshizhe 文史哲 (Journal of Chinese Humanities), and Book Reviews Editor for Philosophy East and West.

Harvard University | Ca' Foscari University

Founder and Director

Anna Irene Baka is a Greek jurist and legal scholar, currently a Marie Curie Global Fellow at Harvard University and Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her research focuses on comparative law, legal history, and international conflicts, with a particular interest in Eastern philosophies and the Chinese perspective on international law.

East China Normal University

Communications Coordinator

Anastasia Meimaridi is a PhD candidate in Chinese philosophy at East China Normal University in Shanghai. Her research focuses on conceptions of desire in early Chinese thought.

Capital Normal University

Fellow

ZHU Huiling is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Capital Normal University in Beijing. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Tsinghua University and specializes in ethics and contemporary political philosophy. She is a prominent translator of Western political thought, having translated M. Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? and Public Philosophy, R. Kirk's The Conservative Mind, T. M. Scanlon's Moral Dimensions, and M. Nussbaum's Frontiers of Justice.

University of Cambridge

Fellow

Yumi Suzuki is Lloyd-Dan David Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute and Darwin College, Cambridge. She works on Sino-Hellenic comparative philosophy and history, with a particular focus on ethics and political philosophy, logic and definition, epistemology and scientific reasoning (especially in biology, ecology, cosmology, and cosmogony).

Jinan University

Fellow

GAO Shankui is a Professor of Western Philosophy at Jinan University in Guangdong. His research covers metaphysics and political philosophy, with a particular focus on Plato and Aristotle. Additionally, he explores topics in the philosophy of science, existentialism, and ethics.

Harvard University

Fellow

Seth Robertson is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University. His research focuses on moral psychology, history of ethics, early Chinese ethics, and metaethics. He co-founded The Deviant Philosopher, a web resource for expanding philosophy curricula beyond traditional canons.

College of William & Mary

Fellow

John Lombardini is an Associate Professor of Government and Affiliate Faculty of Classical Studies at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, USA. His research focuses on ancient political thought in Greece, Rome, and China.

University of Leeds

Fellow

Alba Curry is a Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds. She specializes in early Greek and Chinese philosophy and focuses on the value of anger and its relevance to contemporary society. She also works on the intersection between emotion, ethics, and AI.

Shanghai Normal University

Fellow

HAO Chunpeng is an Associate Professor of Western Philosophy at Shanghai Normal University, where he has been teaching since 2014. His research interests primarily focus on the philosophy of history, Western political philosophy, and French philosophy.

Wuhan University

Fellow

Gina Lebkuecher is an International Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Wuhan University. Her research interests include ethics (especially comparative and applied) and classical Chinese philosophy.

University of Crete

Fellow

Yorgos Moraitis is a Lecturer in the Political Science Department at the University of Crete. He teaches late 19th- and early 20th-century Chinese history, focusing on challenging Eurocentric perceptions of China and its global interactions. He is a Marie Curie Fellow, specialising in China’s early engagement with Western international law.

Duke University

Fellow

LIU Wenjin is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. Her research explores the darker aspects of human nature, focusing on ignorance, individual moral failings, and systemic political vices through analysis of the Platonic Corpus. She also examines analogous concepts of ethical and social pathology in classical Chinese philosophy.

University of Macau

Fellow

Rory O’Neill is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Philosophy at the University of Macau. His research focuses on pre-Qin Daoist and Legalist Philosophy. His courses encourage reflective engagement with methodological approaches, including intercultural and interdisciplinary challenges.