Baik Youngseo(백영서) is professor of East Asian History at Yonsei University. He holds BA and  PhD from Seoul National University. Formerly He was a professor at Hallym University, and Chief Editor, Quarterly Creation and Criticism(창작과비평). His major publications are as follows: Students and Revolution in China in the 1920s: from Identity Crisis to Social Transformation (Seoul, 1994), Returning to East Asia : Questioning the Modernity of China (Seoul, 2000), East Asia as Intellectual Thought: History and Practice from the Perspective of the Korean Peninsula(思想東亞:朝鮮半島視覺的歷史與實踐) (Taipei: 2009, Beijing: 2011), Rethinking East Asia in Core Locations (Seoul: 2013), The Way to Social Humanities: Learning as an Institution/movement (Seoul: 2014). Thinking East Asia Horizontally:Rethinking East Asian History in Core Locations (橫觀東亞:從核心現場重思東亞歷史( (Taipei, 2016) and The Way to Co-prosperity and Core Locations : East Asia as Praxis) (共生への道と核心現場: 實踐課題としての東アジア) ( Tokyo, 2016). He has served visiting scholars at various institutions, such as Harvard-Yenching Institute, Higher Education and Research Center, Nagoya University , Center for Chinese Studies, Taiwan/ Institute of Modern History. He has been leading Discourses on East Asia, and is currently writing a new book, to be entitled as “Three events making China in 20 century: rethinking 1919, 1949 and 1989”