Wu Yunxian completed Bachelor and Master of History in Peking University and Doctor of Economics in Renmin University of China. She is currently a professor, a Ph.D. supervisor, and the director of the Institute of Business History, China University of Political Science and Law. Her main research fields are economic history, enterprise history, and financial system. She has published monographs HSBC and China Finance Research (2007), German Business History (2013), and Learning Advanced Manufacturing Industry from Germany (2015). She is also the translator of Cambridge American Economic History (Volume 1, 2008). She has published more than 40 academic papers in various journals and collections, such as Contemporary Chinese History Research, Political Economic Review, Research on the History of the Communist Party of China, Hebei Academic Journal, and Tsinghua Management Review, and her topics include Game Analysis between the Federal Government and Local Forces in the Change of American Banking System, Economic Analysis of the Trend of China's Currency and Cash M0 Change, and On the Development of American Finance, etc. She is the main author of the third version of textbooks "World Economic History".