Handong Wu

Wu Handong, Doctor of Law, Professor, former President and LL.D Supervisor of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Member of Social Sciences Committee under the Ministry of Education, Vice-Director of Legal Education Guiding Committee under the Ministry of Education, Vice President of China Intellectual Property Society under China Law Society(CLS), Vice President of Civil Law Society under CLS, Guest Professor and LL.D Supervisor of Renmin University of China, Guest Professor of Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Nanjing Normal University, and Ji’nan University, Director of China Intellectual Property Society (CIPS), Vice-Director of Academic Committee of CIPS. Professor Wu is the chief editor of more than 5 IPRs-related and widely adopted textbooks for undergraduate and graduate law students across China. For his academic contribution, Wu enjoys the State Council Special Allowance and listed in National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project. As the head of team, he has undertaken and accomplished more than 10 major research projects at national, ministerial or provincial levels with more than 150 publications in the most influential academic journals in China, including but not limited to Social Sciences in China, China Legal Science, Chinese Journal of Law. Professor Wu has been honored with the National Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation, the the Ministry of Justice Award for Outstanding Legal Textbooks, the Ministry of Justice Award for Excellent Legal Research Achievements, the Ministry of Education Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research in Higher Education, and Hubei Provincial Government Award for Social Sciences Achievements.

Ling Xue is Associate Professor in Translation Studies at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan, China). She completed her MA degree in Translation and Interpreting at University of Westminster in 2009, and PhD in Translation Studies at Henan University in 2014. Her translation, also with Professor Jie ZHANG, Theorising Intellectual Property Rights from Chinese Perspectives would be published by Springer in 2025.

Jie Zhang is Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics in the School of Foreign Languages, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan, China), and Honorary Professor at the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University (Australia). She is a core member of Collaborative Innovation Union for Language Governance Research and Language on the Move.