Sebastiaan Breukel is a sinologist and certified translator and interpreter and has lived, studied, and worked in Beijing, Shanghai, and Taipei. He acquired knowledge of the Chinese language, culture, and customs through work experience as spectator service rep at the Beijing Olympics and as policy officer at the Dutch Embassy in Beijing. Sebastiaan regularly interprets throughout the Netherlands for notaries, court hearings, police, government agencies and businesses. Sebastiaan is the founder of Sinoledge and is based in Amsterdam but frequently travels to China for work.



Yiyao Wang majored in Dutch Studies at Leiden University with a focus on Dutch linguistics and comparative linguistics. Since September 2006, she has worked at the Shanghai Foreign Language University as lecturer and head of the Dutch Studies Department. She also works as a translator and interpreter at a translation agency in Shanghai. Yiyao lives in Shanghai and regularly travels to the Netherlands.


Sebastiaan Breukel
Sebstiaan Breukel
Yiyao Wang
Yiyao Wang