Dong Qiang is Dean of Yenching Academy, and the Boya Chair Professor at Peking University. He has dedicated his career to promoting Sino-French understanding through literature, translation, and cross-cultural exchange. He has published extensively on Chinese literature, including ‘Le Flot de la Poesie Continuera de Couler’ (co-authored with Nobel laureate in Literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio). In 2016, he was elected as a Corresponding Member by the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (ASMP), becoming the first Chinese Member of the Academy in over 200 years.