周质平，1947年生于上海，1970年毕业于东吴大学中文系，1974年获东海大学中文所硕士学位，1982年获美国印第安纳大学中国文学博士学位，现任普林斯顿大学东亚系教授。主要从事晚明文学与思想、中国近现代思想史研究。著有Yuan Hung-tao and the Kung-anSchool《公安派的文学批评及其发展》《胡适的情缘与晚境》《胡适丛论》《现代人物与思潮》《儒林新志》等；主编《胡适早年文存》《胡适未刊英文遗稿》《胡适英文文存》等。

Zhou Zhiping, born in Shanghai in 1947, graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature at Soochow University in 1970, received his master's degree from the Institute of Chinese Literature at Tunghai University in 1974, and earned his Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Indiana University in 1982. He is currently a professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. His research mainly focuses on late Ming literature and thought, as well as modern Chinese intellectual history. He is the author of Yuan Hung-tao and the Kung-an School, The Literary Criticism and Development of the Gong'an School, Hu Shi's Romantic Relationships and Later Years, Collected Essays on Hu Shi, Modern Figures and Intellectual Trends, and New Records of Scholars, among others. He also edited Collected Early Works of Hu Shi, Unpublished English Manuscripts of Hu Shi, and Collected English Works of Hu Shi.