Editors’ Profiles

Haiqin Yu is currently a senior editor at the Journal of University of Jinan (Science and Technology) of the University of Jinan, Shandong Province, China. Dr. Yu’s research focuses on general education, engineering education, and reading and writing education. She attended Harvard Graduate School of Education as a visiting scholar during the 2014-2015 academic year. While there, she established the Fulcrum Team, with whom she conducted the Harvard interview series.

Justin M. Thomas (Zheng Tao) earned a master’s degree in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard University in the spring of 2014. He met Dr. Yu in the fall of the same year and began to assist her with her interview project. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Chinese from Georgetown University in 2012. From 2015 to 2017, he served as a volunteer English teacher with the Peace Corps (known in China as the U.S.-China Friendship Volunteers) at Chongqing Technology and Business University.

Contributing Advisors

Helen Haste is Professor Emerita at the University of Bath in England and Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education (2003-2018). Her research has addressed the development of civic and moral values and the concept of “competence”. Her data include young people from Europe and Asia, including China, where she has held visiting positions in several universities.

Guanghong Li is the President of Shandong Women’s University. She was formerly Director of the Social Sciences Department as well as the Vice President of the University of Jinan. Her research addresses college/university students’ science and technology innovation, labor employment and social security, and organizational behavior and human resource management.