Weixiao Wei is the author of three monographs: An Overview of Chinese Translation Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2019), The History of Chinese Rhetoric (2022), and A Notional Analysis of Chinese Academic Discourse on China (2023). She has also served as editor or co-editor for three Routledge volumes: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Studies (2021), China's Contemporary Image and Rhetoric Practice (2022), and The Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages (2023). Her recent projects include two forthcoming handbooks, set for publication in 2025: The Routledge Handbook of Endangered and Minority Languages and The Routledge Handbook of the Sociopolitical Context of Language Learning. Weixiao's research and teaching focus is on English rhetoric and composition, and she is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Houston.

James Schnell, PhD (Ohio University, 1982), presently works in administration at Ohio State University after spending three years as a cultural advisor in the Defense Critical Languages & Culture Program at the University of Montana, USA. He retired from the U.S. Air Force at the rank of colonel, with his final 14 years serving as an assistant Air Force attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. Schnell is a three time Fulbright Scholar to Cambodia, Myanmar, and Kosovo; has completed three visiting fellowships at the East West Center (Honolulu); and has taught at universities in the United States and throughout Southeast Asia.