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 currently Senior Researcher as well as Director of Division of Tibetan Literature at Institute of Ethnic Literature, CASS. While in her long-term fieldwork in border areas on Tibet, Sichuan and Qinghai, she developed an intensive study on singers 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), coauthor of Meng-Zang wenhua guanxi shihua (History of Cultural Exchanges Between Mongolian and Tibetan, 2000).