作者：王昌偉新加坡國立大學中文系副教授，研究領域為宋至清代的思想史。
作者：劉勇香港中文大學歷史系博士，現任廣州中山大學歷史系、中山大學歷史人類學研究中心副教授。主要研究領域為明代史與中國近世思想文化史。主要論著有《中晚明士人的講學活動與學派建構—以李材（1529-1607）為中心的研究》、《中晚明時期的講學宗旨、大學文本與理學學說建構》、《中晚明理學學說的互動與地域性理學傳統的系譜化進程—以「閩學」為中心》等。
作者：Ying Zhang（張穎）美國俄亥俄州立大學歷史系
Ying Zhang, Assistant Professor of Chinese History at the Ohio State University. Zhang received her Ph.D. in History and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan. Her research and publications focus on Ming politics, the Ming-Qing transition, and gender in pre-modern China. Her monograph on the image politics of seventeenth-century China is forthcoming with the University of Washington Press.
作者：Harry T. DickinsonTeaching for forty years at the University of Edinburgh, Harry T. Dickinson has been an Emeritus Professor there since 2006. He has lectured in the UK, the USA, Europe and Asia and has published in seven languages in fourteen countries. He is the author or editor of well over two hundred publications, including, Bolingbroke, Walpole and the Whig Supremacy, Caricatures and the Constitution, 1760-1832, Liberty and Property in Eighteenth-Century Britain, and The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain