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Sun Pinghua, PhD in Human Rights Law (CUPL—First PhD in HRL in China), a visiting scholar to the University of Exeter, UK. He is an Associate Professor (China University of Political Science and Law) and MA Supervisor. His research interests include: human rights law and applied linguistics. His research projects include, “National Social Science Foundation Post-funded Project” (The Study of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights published by Peking University Press in August 2012) and “National Social Science Fund, China Academic Translation Project”(Socialist Protection System of Human Rights with Chinese Characteristics—to be published by Springer in 2013) besides dozen of provincial and ministerial scientific research programmes. More than 80 journal articles have been published, 8 of which are included in “Politics of China”, “International Law”, and “Constitutional Law, Administrative Law” by Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin University of China. In 2011, he was a visiting scholar in the United Kingdom and ran a postgraduate course “Human Rights in China” (LAWM706) for the Law School, the University of Exeter; and he was invited to participate in the 47th Session of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva. In May 2012, he was invited to attend the International Conference of the China-EU Fundamental Rights at the University of Bologna, Italy, and delivered a speech entitled “Fundamental Principles for Achieving International Human Rights Standards in China”, which is included in Fundamental Rights in Europe and China: Between identities and universalism published in Italy (2013). He is now committed to “Chinese Wisdoms in Establishing International Human Rights Regime”, which has been included in Springer’s publishing agenda, was appraised by Michael K. Addo, the global leading human rights expert: “This is an original research to fill the gaps in the academic research field of international human rights”.