Weizhan Meng (Ph.D. in Political Science) is an assistant research professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, Fudan University. He is currently serving as a tutor at Zhide Academy of Fudan University. He has successively studied at Beijing Foreign Studies University, East China Normal University, The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, and, in 2018, he obtained his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Hong Kong. His main research areas are: international relations theory, China’s foreign affairs, China’s national security affairs, and the domestic politics of the United States. He has published research articles in nearly ten SSCI-indexed journals. His most representative monograph is Universality and Particularity in International Relations Theory (published by Tianjin People's Publishing House in 2023).