Gao Jianping, Ph.D. in Aesthetics of Uppsala University, Sweden, Research Fellow of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Professor of Shenzhen University. Currently, he is the President of Chinese Society for Aesthetics, and was served as the President of the International Association of Aesthetics (2013-2016). His representative books include Aesthetics and Art: Traditional and Contemporary China in a Comparative Perspective (English), and L’esprit Esthétique Chinois (French), as well as more than 20 books in Chinese.