Yin Shaoting, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Yunnan University, professor, doctoral adviser, member of the Standing Council of China Society of Ethnology, former vice president of Yunnan Museum. Visiting Research Fellow to the National Ethnology Museum of Japan and Visiting Professor to Kyoto University and Tokyo University of Foreign Languages from 1990-1996. Main areas of research include: ecological anthropology, anthropology museum and cultural heritage protection. Leader of such international projects as Construction of Yunnan Ethnic Cultural Village, Ecology of Mekong Region, and Comparative Study on Ethnic Ecology in Southeast Asia in recent years. Publications include: A Controversial Cultural-Ecological System: Studies on Yunnan's Swidden Farming, Yunnan's Material Culture: Agriculture Volume, Man and Forest: Swidden Farming in the Eyes of an Ecological Anthropologist, edited Yunnan Material Culture Series and Frontier Culture Series, Reports on Yunnan's Trial on Ethnic Eco-Cultural Village, Ethnic Ecology: From Jinsha River to the Red River and three translations including The Road of Rice. Of them Yunnan's Material Culture: Agriculture Volume won the 11th China Book Award, and Yunnan Material Culture Series was nominated for the 6th National Book Award. Prof. Yin enjoys the State Council's Special Subsidy for his outstanding achievements and won the prize for outstanding teachers from the Wu Daguan Education Fund at Yunnan University.