Nishant Dilip Sharma is a visiting researcher at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. He is enrolled as a doctoral fellow at the Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University. His doctoral thesis focuses on the Institution of Paternalism in China. He completed his Masters in International Studies from Christ University, Bangalore. His research interests also include China's domestic governance and the role of China's historical memory in public diplomacy.
Ms. Tanvi Negi has been teaching in the Department of Chinese Studies at Doon University as an Assistant Professor since 2010. She completed her Bachelors and Masters from Jawaharlal Nehru University. In 2008, she was awarded a one-year scholarship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to study at South East Normal University in Guangzhou, PRC.Her research interests include Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Translation Studies.