A native of Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, with a Ph.D. in history, He Ming is the dean of the School of Ethnology and Sociology at Yunnan University. He is a director of the Southwest Frontier Ethnic Minority Research Center (a key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education) and a doctoral supervisor majoring in ethnology. He specializes in ethnology and cultural anthropology, and has published more than 140 papers in Philosophical Research, Ethno-National Studies, Literary Review, Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy, and Academic Monthly. He has won the second prize of the Second Award for Outstanding Achievement in Social Science by Chinese Youth and the second prize of the Yunnan Province Award for Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences.
A Bai national, Master of History, editor and reviewer at the Editorial Office of Thinking of Yunnan University, Liao Guoqiang is a master supervisor majoring in Chinese economic history and ethnology, and has published more than thirty papers and three academic monographs (co-authored). He has presided over the "Research on Ecological Culture of Ethnic Minorities in China" (2006), a youth project of the National Social Science Fund of China, and won the second prize of the Second Award for Outstanding Achievement in Social Science by Chinese Youth.