YANG Baoyun is a professor at the School of International Relations of Peking University and obtained his PhD from Paris 7 University (Université Paris Diderot). He has long been engaged in research in the fields of Southeast Asia, overseas Chinese, Asia-Europe relations and Sino-foreign cultural exchanges. He is currently the vice-president of the China Association for Southeast Asian Studies and the Advisor of academic affairs of the Pridi Banomyong International College, Thammasat University, Thailand. His book Contribution à l’Histoire de la Principauté des Nguyên du Vietnam méridional (1600-1775), published in Geneva in 1992, won the 1994 Stanislas Julien Prize of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institut de France. His other publications include Chinese Culture in Southeast Asia (1997, reprinted in 2009), Ancient History of Southeast Asia (associate editor, 2013), The ‘Belt and Road’ Country Overview: Cambodia (co-author, 2019), as well as numerous research papers in Chinese, French and English.