Jinyi Chu is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. He received his PhD from Stanford University. His research interests span Russian modernism, Russian poetry, socialist culture, translation studies, and Sino-Russian relations. He is the author of World-Feeling: Russian Literature and Geopolitics and the monograph Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other is the Universal and numerous peer-reviewed articles and public essays on the writing of Lenin, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Mandelstam, and Pasternak. He is also the Chinese translator of Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time as well as other scholarly and literary works in English and Russian.

Xin Ai is an Associate Professor at the School of Russian at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He received his PhD from Peking University and completed joint doctoral training at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the history and theory of modern Western art, as well as Russian culture and art history. His publications include monograph on European modern abstract art, as well as Chinese translations of Anton Chekhov’s short story collection The Man in a Case and Think Like an Artist. He has also received research and publication grants from the German Center for Art History (DFK Paris) and the Malevich Society in New York.

Xiaodong Zhang is Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University and Associate Editor-in-Chief of Russian Literature & Art. His research focuses on Russian literature, intellectual history, and film studies. He is the author of three academic monographs, including a study of Tarkovsky’s cinematic writing, as well as four translated works and one essay collection.