Ilia Mozias is a researcher of Daoism and Chinese religion. He earned his MA and Ph.D. degrees from the Hebrew University. His research focuses on the history of Daoism, internal alchemy, and spirit writing in late imperial and modern China. His dissertation was dedicated to one of the foundational figures in the history of internal alchemy, Lu Xixing 陸西星 (1520-1601 or 1606).

Sharon Sanderovitch earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and pursued postdoctoral research at Tel Aviv University, the Center for Chinese Studies (Taipei), and most recently, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Fellow. Her study of early-imperial Chinese intellectual history encompasses early classical literature, political thought and rhetoric, poetry, and historiography. Working across literary genres, she examines intersections of body, politics, and representation, particularly as pertaining to the discourse of monarchical rulership in the early, formative centuries of the long imperial era.

In recent years she has collaborated with Taiwan-based colleagues in organizing a monthly online colloquium hosted by Academia Sinica’s Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy (February – July 2022), contributed chapters to forthcoming volumes (e.g., Disability and Impairment in Early China, 2025), and presented her ongoing research in various professional venues, most recently the Center for Chinese Studies, UC-Berkeley (April 2025). She is now working on two book manuscripts, for both general and academic readership—one deepening the grasp of the rich, multi-layered early-imperial political discourse, and the other introducing one such relevant and highly influential intellectual tradition to contemporary Hebrew readers.

After a Ph.D. in Communication science (Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017) and another in Political science (University of Quebec at Montreal, 2018), Alexandre Schiele pursued postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research follows two complementary directions. On the one hand, he investigates the thought and practice of the successive Chinese generations of leadership in the realm of foreign relations from the comparative perspective of historical Chinese and Western politics. On the other hand, he analyzes the foreign media coverage of Chinese politics, with a particularly focus on interpretation models and their evolution overtime, and how they inform the public perception of China.