Beacon is honoured to have Professor Jao Tsung-i, Permanent Honorary Adviser of SHI, and Professor Liu Jiahe from the School of History, Beijing Normal University as Honorary Editors-in-Chief, as well as the journal title rendered in Professor Jao’s calligraphy. The Editorial Board consists of outstanding young scholars from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Europe, America etc., led by Editors-in-Chief Professor Lo Ming Tung, Head of Department of Chinese Language and Literature, HKBU and Professor Li Rui, Professor of School of History, Beijing Normal University.
Honorary Editors-in-Chief:
Professor Jao Tsung-i, world renowned Sinologist and Permanent Honorary Adviser of SHI
Professor Liu Jiahe, Professor of the School of History, Beijing Normal University
Editorial Board Members (in alphabetical order of surnames):
| Editors-in-Chief: | |
| Li Rui | School of History, Beijing Normal University |
| Lo Ming Tung | Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University |
| Editorial Board Members: | |
| Pei-Yi Chin | Department of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University |
| Feng Xiao-Ting | Department of Chinese Literature of Chiayi University |
| Bernhard Fuehrer | China & Inner Asia Section, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, SOAS University of London |
| Hashimoto Hidemi | Department of History, Peking University |
| Huang Zhenping | Department of History, Tsinghua University |
| Jiang Xiangdong | Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
| Christian Soffel | Institute of Sinology, University of Trier |
| Nicholas M. Williams | School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University |
| Zhu Qinghua | College of Political Science and Law, Capital Normal University |