Su Gu (Ph.D. in Philosophy) is a professor and research fellow at the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (IAS-Fudan). His main areas of research are political philosophy and philosophy of law. He is a standing member in the Council of Chinese Association for Modern Foreign Philosophy, member in the Council of Chinese Association for History of Foreign Philosophy, research fellow of Hong Fan Institute of Law and Economics. He has published about 10 academic books including Essential Ideas of Liberalism, A History of Western Political and Legal Thoughts, After Republic: Writings in Political and Legal Philosophy, and over 10 books translated from English including John Rawls: his Life and Theory of Justice. He has been selected by British website The Culture Trip as one of  the “Ten Contemporary Philosophers to Read Today” together with Slavoj ?i?ek, Thomas Nagel, Martha Nussbaum and other leading philosophers in 2017.