Albert Kozik (孔孝文), Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Department of Sinology of the University of Warsaw. He graduated from the University of Oxford and the University of Warsaw. He received scholarships from, among others, the Boston College Ricci Institute, Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the Foundation for Polish Science. He was the principal investigator for a research grant dedicated to Stanisław Leszczyński’s patronage in Lorraine (funded by the Polish Ministry of Science). His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Monumenta Serica, The Eighteenth-Century, and several volumes published with Palgrave Macmillan, Brill, Bloomsbury, Routledge, and Zhejiang University Press.