Yang Hui  Yang Hui, Naxi, graduated in 1982 from the Department of Politics of Yunnan Nationalities College as Bachelor of Law. Graduated from Department of Anthropology of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Master of Anthropology in 1991. Once worked in the Institute of Ethnology of Yunnan Nationalities College and Department of Ethnology of Central Nationalities University. Now associate professor in Department of Anthropology of Yunnan University and Deputy Director of East Asia Institute of Visual Anthropology. Visiting scholar at University of California (Berkley) from 2001 to 2002.

  Main publications include: Tourism, Anthropology and Chinese Society( as editor-in-chief), Principles of Visual Anthropology (as translator) and Anthropology and Ethnic Groups in Southwest China (as deputy editor-in-chief) as well as some papers published in Central Nationalities University Journal, Thinking, and Guangxi Nationalities College Journal. Courses taught include: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Theory and Methodology of Cultural Anthropology, Theory of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnography, Visual Anthropology, and Tourist Anthropology.