CHAO Gejin

Chao Gejin is the director of Institute of Ethnic Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is a folklorist and literary critic; his publications (in Chinese) include Oral Poetics: Formulaic Diction of Arimpi’s Jangar Singing (2000), The Heroic Songs of the Past: Fieldnotes on the Oirat Mongolian Epic Tradition (2004), and Selected Essays and Papers on Epic Studies (2016).