Tian Zhaoyuan, the creator of the Folkloric doctoral student cultivation station at East China Normal University, is the first director of the Institute of Folklore, executive director of the Chinese Folklore Society, and vice president of the School of Social Development at East China Normal University. He has published more than ten monographs, including Myths and Chinese Society and Mythology and Aesthetics, as well as over 100 papers.
Ye Shuxian is a professor at Zhiyuan College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and president of the Chinese Mythology Society and the Society of Chinese Literary Anthropology. A mythologist and literary anthropologist, he has a published more than ten monographs on Chinese mythological philosophy, literature and Anthropology, and over 100 papers.
Qian Hang is a professor at the College of Humanities and Communications, Shanghai Normal University, the supervisor of the master’slevel sociology program, executive director of the Social History Society of China, and a Chinese historian. He has published more than ten monographs, such as Study on the History of Patriarchal Clan System in Zhou Dynasty, and A New Exploration of the History of Chinese Clansmen, as well as over 100 papers.