Fan Hong is professor in Sport Studies and executive dean of the Institute of Olympic Studies and Research of Shanghai University of Sport, China. She has worked, as a Professor, in De Montford University, University College Cork, University of Western Australia, Bangor University from the 1990s to the 2020s. She was the editor of the International Journal of History of Sport (Asia) and now is the Editor in Chief of the Asian Journal of Sport History and Culture, and editorial board member of several academic journals. Her research interests are in the areas of sports history, gender, policy and organisation, cross cultural studies, and Asian sports history studies.

Liu Li obtained her PhD at The University of Western Australia in 2016 in Perth, Australia. She studied in University College Cork, Ireland from 2011 to 2014. She is now an associate professor in the School of Sports History and Culture, College of Sports and Physical Education at Anhui Normal University. She is an editorial board member of the Asian Journal of Sport History and Culture. Her main research interests are Chinese history and sports history and culture. She has received funding for Six research projects. Two of them are supported by China's National Philosophy & Social Science Foundation and the Ministry of Education. She has published two books in English and more than 20 book chapters and refereed journal articles in Chinese and English.