Chu Jianfang (褚建芳)
is an associate professor of anthropology at the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University. He mastered the oral language of the ethnic Dai villagers during his first fieldwork in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and published an ethnography titled Between People and Gods: The Ritual Life, Economic Ethics and Hierarchical Order of a Dai Village in Mangshi, Yunnan 《人神之间:云南芒市一个傣族村寨的仪式生活、经济伦理与等级秩序》 (2005). Since then he has focused his research interests on the livelihood of ethnic groups and their social-cultural change and has published several articles on the issue. Besides, he is also interested in the production of traditions, anthropological reflections on economic growth and development and in such issues as aging, welfare systems, and folk arts.
Liang Yongjia (梁永佳)
is a professor at the Department of Sociology and director of the Institute of Anthropology, Zhejiang University. His interest includes secularism and nation-building in China and Asia, cosmology, and kingship. His papers are published in American Anthropologist, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, China Review, Religions, Cargo, and Sociological Studies 《社会学研究》. He is the author of three monographs, including Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese Minority (Routledge, 2018). He is editor-in-chief of Anthropological Studies 《人类学研究》.
Liu Dongxu (刘东旭)
is an associate professor of anthropology at Minzu University of China. His research interests include labor studies with a focus on ethnic minority workers in China’s industrialization, relations between Chinese people and local communities in East Africa, and so on. He is author of Order in Mobile Society: A Study on Organization and Behavior of Yi people in the Pearl River Delta 《流动社会的秩序:珠三角彝人的组织与群体行为研究》 (2016) and he has published papers in Journal of World Peoples Studies, Open Times, and other Chinese-language journals.
Ma Chongwei (马翀炜)
is a professor at the School of Ethnology and Sociology at Yunnan University. His research interests include ethnological studies in the ethnic border
Ma Guoqing (麻国庆)
joined Minzu University of China in 2015 as dean of the School of Ethnology and Sociology and professor. He has served as vice president of MUC since 2019. He was appointed as executive president of the Chinese Association of Ethnology, vice president of the Chinese Association of Anthropology, and managing vice president of the Chinese Association for Ethnic Policy. Professor Ma’s research interests include ethnosociology, and ethnic and area studies. He has published extensively and internationally with 8 academic books, including Jia and Social Structure of China 《家与中国社会结构》 (1999), Entering the World of the Other 《走进他者的世界》 (2001), Global Consciousness and Academic Awareness of Anthropology 《人类学的全球意识与学术自觉》 (2016), and Breaking Ground 《破土而出》 (2020), as well as over 100 journal articles.
Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁)
is an assistant professor of anthropology at Yunnan Minzu University in Kunming. She specializes in ecological anthropology. She is the author of On the Kinship of the Akha People and Rubber Transaction: Taking the Old Village of Zhasongban in Xishuangbanna as an Example 《阿卡人的亲属关系与橡胶贸易——以西双版纳扎松板老寨为例》 (2013), Rubber Plantation and the Social Reproduction of Akha People 《橡胶种植与阿卡社会继替》 (2021).
Qiang Ge (强舸)
is an associate professor at the Department of Party Building at Party School of the Central Committee of CPC in Beijing. His research areas are party building studies and Tibetan governance.
is a lecturer in the School of Humanities, Tibet University. She is also a doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University. Her research interests include cross-cultural communication and communication and social change.
Wen Shixian (温士贤)
is an associate professor and the department head at the School of Tourism Management at South China Normal University in Guangzhou. His research areas are migration of ethnic minorities, urban ethnic relations, and anthropology of tourism. Moreover, he is the author of Householding and Marketing: The Nu Ethnic’s Survival Selection in Northwest Yunnan 《家计与市场:滇西北怒族社会的生存选择》 (2013).
Zhang Liang (张亮)
is an associate professor at the School of Ethnology and Sociology at Minzu University of China in Beijing. His research area is social anthropology. He has published more than ten academic papers in key scholarly journals in China and abroad, including Open Times, Ideological Front, and so on. He is the author of Sanya Hui’s Spatial-temporal Concepts and Social Practice 《南海回村——三亚回族的时空观念与社会实践》 (2016).
Zheng Xin (郑欣)
is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University. He specializes in communication sociology, rural communication studies, youth culture, applied communication research, etc. He is the author of Rural-To-Urban Migration: A Study of the New Generation of Migrant Workers from the Perspective of Communication 《进城:传播学视野下的新生代农民工》 (2018), Populace Idol Worship: A Study on TV Talent Shows from the Perspective of Communication Sociology 《平民偶像崇拜:电视选秀节目的传播社会学研究》 (2008), Criticism and Listening: Research on the Vulgarization of TV Programs 《批判与倾听:电视节目低俗化研究》 (2013), Game of Survival in Village Politics: A Study on Petitioning by Villagers in Rural North China 《乡村政治中的博弈生存——华北农村村民上访研究》 (2005), etc.