Xiaoqing Chen is an internationally renowned documentary filmmaker and food writer. He has directed a number of documentaries, including A Bite of China (Season I & II), Once Upon A Bite, and China Beyond Tastes, and is the author of You are What You Eat. He currently serves as Deputy Editor at Tencent Video and in charges of DOClabs, a top-level production company.
His dedication and passion led his team and himself to create narrative documentaries artistically and critically. In 2008, holding extensive documentary experiences, he joined Tencent and launched a series of food documentaries, including Once Upon A Bite, which received over one billion views, and Flavorful Origins: Chaoshan, one of the hottest Food TV Shows on Netflix.

Joanna Waley-Cohen is Provost Emerita of NYU Shanghai and Julius Silver Professor of History at NYU, where she has taught Chinese history since 1992. She has previously taught at Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cambridge and a PhD from Yale, where she studied with Jonathan Spence and Yu Ying-shih.
Among her other honors, Waley-Cohen is the recipient of a Friendship Award from the government of the People’s Republic of China. A renowned scholar of Chinese history, particularly the eighteenth-century Qianlong period, she has also devoted the past decade and a half to the development of international education in China. Her research interests include early modern Chinese history, China and the West, Chinese law, and Chinese imperial culture. Her publications include The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military under the Qing and The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History, as well as many essays, most recently on gastronomy and consumer culture in early modern China.