Q. Edward Wang is Professor of History at Rowan University in the US and Changjiang Professor of History at Peking University in China. Since 2005 he has also served as Secretary General of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography. Among his publications are Inventing China through History: the May Fourth Approach to Historiography (2001); Mirroring the Past: the Writing and Use of History in Imperial China (2005; coauthored); and Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History (2015).

Georg G. Iggers is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at The State University of New York, Buffalo, and the co-founder in 1980 of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography. His publications include The German Conception of History (1968), New Directions in European Historiography (1975), and Historiography in the Twentieth Century (1997) and, co-authored with Q. Edward Wang and Supriya Mukherjee, A Global History of Modern Historiography (2008).