Torbjörn Lodén is head of the Stockholm China Center at ISDP, professor emeritus of Chinese language and culture at Stockholm University and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. From 1973 to 1976 he served as Swedish cultural attaché to China, and he has been a visiting professor in Hong Kong and Beijing. He has published numerous works on Chinese thought, literature, history, and politics, for example Rediscovering Confucianism (2006) and Kinas vägval – från himmelskt imperium till global stormakt [China’s choice of road – from celestial empire to global great power, 2012]. He also contributed to the ORCAxISDP Special Issue "The Dalai Lama's Succession: Strategic Realities of the Tibet Question."