Editorial Advisory Board
Honorary Editor-in-Chief
Qu Shaobing, Guangzhou University; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China
Editor-in-Chief
Xuan Jiancong, Guangzhou University, China
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Wang Hailan, Guangzhou University, China
English Language Editor
Fang Xiaobing, Nanjing University, China
Editorial Assistants
Xia Zhong, Guangzhou Huashang College, China
Song Di, Hanshan Normal University, China
Quan Yuzhen, Guangxi Science & Technology Normal University, China
Xiang Chengru, Qinghai Minzu University, China
Tan Jing, Guangxi University of Finance and Economics, China
Jiang Peiyun, Hunan City University, China
Members of Editorial Advisory Board
Nguyen Anh-Dan, University of Education, Hue University, Vietnam
Bianca Basciano, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Preechya Choongern, Huachiew Chalermprakiet University, Thailand
Wang Chunhui, Capital Normal University, China
Li Fei, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China
Herman, Universitas Universal, Batam, Indonesia
Dong Hongjie, Xi’ an University, China
Wang Hui, Zhejiang Normal University, China
Zhang Huiyu, Zhejiang University, China
Wei Huiping, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, China
Li Jia, Yunnan University, China
Zhang Jie, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China
Cho Jinhyun, Macquarie University, Australia
Lee Kang-Jae, Seoul National University, South Korea
Paul Kerswill, University of York, United Kingdom
Liu Lening, Columbia University, United States
Bao Lianqun, Oita University, Japan
Wang Lifei, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Cheng Long, Alexander College, Canada
Shen Qi, Tongji University, China
Lau Su Kia, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Zhang Tianwei, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
Zhang Weiguo, Shandong University, China
Agnieszka Wójcicka, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Fang Xiaobing, Nanjing University, China
Wang Xiaomei, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wang Xuan, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
George Xinsheng Zhang, Richmond, The American International University in London, United Kingdom
Gao Xuesong University of New South Wales, Australia
Luo Yongxian, University of Melbourne, Australia
Yang Zhaole, Leiden University, Netherlands
Editor-in-Chief Introduction
Professor Xuan Jiancong
Jiancong Xuan, Professor, Ph.D. in Sun Yat-sen University, Dean of the School of Humanities and Executive Vice Dean of the Liwan Research Institute, Guangzhou University; Deputy Director of the National Language Service and Language Research Center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a national-level language and linguistic research institution; Member of the Academic Committee of Guangzhou University; Member of the Teaching Guidance Committee for Chinese Language and Literature Majors in Colleges and Universities of Guangdong Province; Vice President of the Guangdong Provincial Association of Chinese Language Studies.
He is mainly engaged in the research of ancient Chinese characters and unearthed documents, international Chinese education, and the cultivation of Chinese language education talents. His academic focus lies in the historical development and contemporary inheritance of Chinese language and characters. He is committed to the study of the character usage habits in unearthed documents, the textual research and interpretation of difficult ancient Chinese characters, as well as the classic interpretation and contemporary inheritance of language and culture. He has published more than 60 academic papers in journals including Journal of Literature and History and Research in Ancient Chinese Language, and authored monographs such as A Study on the Character Usage Habits in Chu Bamboo Slips and Silk Manuscripts of the Warring States Period and Reader of Warring States Bamboo Slips and Silk Manuscripts. He has presided over 3 research projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China. He was awarded the Second Prize of the Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award (Basic Education). As the third-ranked co-compiler, he participated in compiling A Comprehensive Annotation of Words and Characters in Unearthed Warring States Period Documents, which won the Nomination Award of the 5th China Government Publishing Award and the Second Prize of the 9th Outstanding Achievement Award in Humanities and Social Sciences of Higher Education Institutions issued by the Ministry of Education. As the associate editor, he participated in compiling Report on Language Life in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area 2021, which won the First Prize of the 10th Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences of Guangdong Province.
He also holds concurrent academic positions: Member of the Editorial Board of Forum on Ancient Chinese Characters (a collection published by the Institute of Ancient Chinese Characters, Sun Yat-sen University), Journal of Guangzhou University (Social Science Edition), and Journal of Language Governance (Capital Normal University); Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Language Life and Language Services; Off-campus Supervisor for the Doctor of Education Program of South China Normal University; Member of the Academic Committee of A Dictionary of Standard Guangzhou Pronunciation (Center for Chinese Dialect Studies, Jinan University). Additionally, he serves as a peer reviewer for a number of academic journals, including Journal of Literature and History, Journal of Chinese Historical Documents, Journal of Macau University of Science and Technology, International Sinology, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, and Studies in Chinese Linguistics.
Associate Editor-in-Chief Introduction
Professor Wang Hailan
Wang Hailan, an associate professor at the School of Humanities, Guangzhou University, currently serves as the Executive Director of the National Research Center for Language Service and Languages of the Guang Dong - Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, an institution for national language and character research. Co-supervised by Professor Huang Shao’an and Professor Ning Jiming, she obtained her PhD in Language Economics from Shandong University, and then under the supervision of Professor Li Yuming, completed her postdoctoral research in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Beijing Language and Culture University.
With an interdisciplinary background, knowledge and methodological foundation in economics and linguistics, her main research fields include language services, language economy and language dissemination. She has chaired 8 national and provincial-ministerial level projects, including “The Economic Theory of Language: Theory and Practice” post-funded by the National Social Science, “Research on the Construction of the Language Service System in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area” by the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences , and “Research on the Construction of the Public Language Service Evaluation System”, the “14th Five-Year Plan” research project of the National Language Commission.
She has compiled China Language Service Development Report and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Language Service Development Report, co-edited multiple language life blue books like Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Language Life Status Report and China Language Policy Research Report. Also, she is the author of over 30 reports on language life and language services. And she has written more than 30 papers for publications like Guangming Daily, Applied Linguistics, Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning, and China Social Sciences Journal, and was listed as one of CNKI’s “TOP 1% Highly Cited Scholars” for two consecutive years in 2024 and 2025.
Currently, She serves as the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Language Life and Language Services, and is member of a council of the 8th Society on Modernization of Chinese Language, the Sociolinguistics Branch of the Chinese Language Society, and the vice president of the Young and Middle-aged Scholars’ Collaborative Innovation Alliance for Language and Character Studies.
