Valentina Pedone is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Florence, Italy. Her academic interests lie in the languages and cultures of people of Chinese origins, inside and outside China. She is author of A Journey to the West: Observations on the Chinese Migration to Italy (Firenze University Press).
Gaoheng Zhang is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). He is the author of Migration and the Media: Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992–2012 (University of Toronto, 2019). He is a recipient of major grants and fellowships from American, Canadian, and European institutions.