Yang, Enhong Yang, Enhong is Han, born in Beijing; Graduated from Dept. of Ethnic Minority Languages and Literatures, Central Institute for Nationalities in 1967. Since then she spent 12 years in inner Tibet learning local language, dialect and culture. She is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Ph.D. Advisor, and former Director of Division of Tibetan Literature, as well as Deputy Director of Oral Traditions Research Center at the Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. While in her long-term fieldwork in border areas on Tibet, Sichuan and Qinghai, she developed an intensive study on singers and storytellers of epic Gesar and published many articles in this field. She is author of Ge-sa-er yiren yanjiu (Investigations and Researches into Singers of Epic Gesar, 1995), and Ge-sa-er: zhongguo shaoshu minzu yingxiong shishi (Gesar: A Hero Epic from China Ethnic Minority Traditions, 1990), and Zangzu funyu koushushi (Oral History of Tibetan Women, 2006), as well as co-author of Meng-zang wenhua guanxi shihua (History of Cultural Exchanges between Mongolian and Tibetan, 2000).
Yang was interviewing with the late Tibetan epic master singer Bsam-grub
Presentation topic: Continuity and Development of Gesar Oral Tradition in the Early 21st Century: Centered on the Investigation of Young Gesar Singers |