Laurence Roulleau-Berger is Research Director at National Center for Scientific Research (France), Triangle, École Normale Supérieure of Lyon. She received her Ph D in sociology in 1982 and  her Ph D Supervisor in sociology in 2001 from University Lyon 2. She was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (1997), at the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing during one year (2006), and she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) (2004), at the University of Beijing (2011), the Shanghai University (2018) and Seijo University (2018), the Tongji University (2019). She has led numerous research programs in Europe and in China in urban sociology, economic sociology, and sociology of migration over thirty years. Since 2006 with Chinese sociologists, more recently with Japanese and Korean ones, she is involved in a epistemological way on the fabric of post-Western sociology paradigm. She is the French director of the International Advanced Laboratory CNRS-ENS Lyon/CASS Post-Western Sociology in Europe and in China. She has published, edited, and co-edited numerous books, a large number of referees articles in French and international sociology journals and books chapters. Among her recent selected books : Post-Western Revolution in Sociology. From China to Europe (2016)- Work and Migration. Chinese Youth in Shanghai and Paris, with Yan Jun (2017)- The Fabric of Sociological Knowledge, co-ed. with Xie Lizhong (2017) (in Chinese)- Post-Western Sociology. From China to Europe, co-ed. with Li Peilin (2018)- Young Chinese Migrants, Compressed Individual and Global Condition (2021)- Sociology of Migration and Post-Western Theory, co-ed with Liu Yuzhao (2021). She is Editor-in chief of the series “Post-Western Social Sciences and Global Knowledge” by Brill Publishers, and of the series  “From the East to the West” by ENS Publishers. She is a member of editorial board of several academic journals, including the Journal of Chinese Sociology. In 2018 she was awarded by CNRS, ENS of Lyon and University of Lyon the Price Maurice Courant for her scientific research. She was appointed distinguished Professor of 2018 Shanghai University High-End Foreign Expert Program. She has been appointed in 2021 Life Fellow at Global China Academy, British Academy. She has been appointed in 2021 november Chevalier dans L’Ordre National du Mérite.

Dr. Jun WEN is the Dean of School of Social Development and Co-Director of the New York University-East China Normal University Institute for Social Development at New York University Shanghai, also a Professor of Sociology and Social Work. Dr. WEN's main research interests are in the areas of urban sociology, sociology of development，social policy and social development, sociological theory, social work theory. He has published many influential scholarly works, including nearly 200 journal articles and 20 books. In 2017, he was also awarded the distinguished professor of the ‘Chang Jiang Scholars’ by the Chinese Ministry of Education. 

E-mail: jwen [at] soci.ecnu.edu.cn;  jw186 [at] nyu.edu