Qingping Liu (Ph.D. in Philosophy) is a professor and research fellow at the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (IAS-Fudan). His areas of specialization include comparative studies of Chinese and Western cultures, moral philosophy and political philosophy, and aesthetics. His representative publications include Loyalty and Filial Piety vs. Humaneness and Justice: A Criticism of Confucian Ethics (2012, in Chinese), The Emotional, the Rational, the Utilitarian, and the Desirable: A Reflection on Popular Aesthetic Culture (1998, in Chinese), and more than 200 academic articles in Chinese and English (over 10 articles published in AHCI journals). From 2014 to 2017, he was consecutively in the list of “Most-Cited Researchers in China” released by the publishing group Elsevier, which means that the total number of citations of his English papers is at the top level among all researchers in the areas of art and humanities in mainland China.