Kate Rose is an Associate Professor at the China University of Mining and Technology. In 2005, she earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Montpellier, France, on Magical Realism and the quest for freedom in contemporary French and Francophone women's writings (also the topic of her first book, Dècoloniser l'imaginaire). She majored in International Studies at Boston College, USA, and is also a fiction writer, poet, and playwright. Gong Qiangwei (宫è"·è-++) is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Foreign Studies of the China University of Mining and Technology. She conducts research at the Center of Translation Studies and the International Center for Comparative Sinology, and is a doctoral candidate in Translation Studies at the School of Foreign Languages of Peking University, China.