Place of Birth: Inner Mongolia, China
  Distinguished Professor of Fudan University
  Ministry of Education Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor
 
Education
 
  March 1986-August 1989, Third Department of Language and Literature, Minzu University of China, majored in linguistic anthropology with personal naming as a focus, Ph.D. in literature
  September 1982-July 1985, Institute for Nationality Studies, Minzu University of China, Ethnology major with Mongolian-Han intermarriage as a focus, master of Law
  September 1978-July 1982, English Department, Inner Mongolia University, Bachelor of English Literature
 
Work Experience
 
  July 2009 – Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  April 2005-August 2009 Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology at Carleton College, Minnesota, USA.
  August 2008-August 2009 Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. 
  March 2004-March 2005 Bernstein Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Carleton College, Minnesota, USA. 
  March 2003-March 2004 Bernstein Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Carleton College, Minnesota, USA. 
  January-June 2002 Freeman Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Carleton College.
  October-November 2002 K.P. Tin Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Education, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong.
  September 2002 Visiting Fellow, Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, the University of Oslo, Norway. 
  October 2001 Visiting Fellow at Institute of Historiography and Languages of Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  March – June 2001 Freeman Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Carleton College. 
  February 2001 Visiting Fellow at Anthropology Department of Australian National University, Australia. 
  March 2000 Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, USA. 
  May-June 2000 Visiting Fellow, The Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, Australia.
  January 1993-March 1994 Research fellow of Common Security Forum based at King's College, Cambridge University, supported by a grant from MIASU-CSF (Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit & Common Security Forum). 
  January 1992-January 1993 Post-doctoral research under FCO (Foreign and Common Wealth Office) Senior Fellowships, attached to Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge University, U.K. 
 
Appointments
 
  December 2014 –2018 Director of Institute of Anthropological and Ethnological Studies, Fudan University. 
  March 2013 - Director of Centre of National Minorities Studies at Fudan University.
  May 2012 –Oct.2014: Associate dean of Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences. 
  July 2009-November 2016: China Ministry of Education Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor at Guizhou University
  July 2009 - Distinguished Professor of Fudan University, 
  August 1989-July 2009 Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology, director of Department of