Liu Dong is founding editor of Zhongguo xueshu (China Scholarship), the first blind-peer-reviewed academic journal in China for humanities and social sciences. He is also Professor of Chinese and Philosophy, and Vice Dean of the Guoxue yuan (Academy of Traditional Chinese Learning) at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His many books include studies of anti-aesthetics, Max Weber, Lu Xun, Karl Jaspers, and an introductory textbook on Chinese culture for Chinese undergraduates, as well as translations of Wittgenstein and Jacques Gernet. Liu adopts a reflective, multidisciplinary approach to the problem of defining, rather than assuming, an entity known as “China.” As a 2013-2016 Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow, Liu Dong was one of four collaborators on the History, Philology, and the Nation in the Chinese Humanities project.