邓立立 Teng, Li-li. M.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, presently pursuing a PhD. in Educational Psychology. She was four times awarded the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching when she taught at the Chinese program at Harvard University. During her service at Yale University, she developed this textbook in cooperation with her colleagues while teaching third-year-level students. Li-li's Blogs

李戎真 Li, Rongzhen. Chinese teacher at Yale University East Asian Languages & Literatures Department. M.A. in teaching Chinese as a second language. B.A. in Chinese language and literature. She has taught both drill section and master section at Princeton in Beijing (PIB). Before she came to the USA, she was the Chinese language program supervisor at the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) Beijing program.

王郁林 Wang, Yu-lin. B.A. and M.A. in Chinese Literature. She has taught classical and modern Chinese at the Inter-University Program (Taipei), Middlebury Summer Language School, Connecticut College, San Francisco State University and Yale University.