1988-1992 Doctor of Folklore, Beijing Normal University

1989-1991 Joint PhD student, University of Tsukuba (Japan)

1986-1988 Master of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

1982-1986 Bachelor of Philosophy, Inner Mongolia University

2019- Professor, School of Sociology. Deputy Director of Research and Development Center for Intangible Culture Heritage. Beijing Normal University.

2011-2019 Researcher and Director of the Ethnic Culture Research Office. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

2006-2011 Professor, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Director of Research Center for Folklore, Classics and Chinese Characters Beijing Normal University.

1992-2006 Associate Researcher and Deputy Director of the Ethnic Culture Research Office. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

1992-1994 Postdoctoral fellow, Instructor: Fei Xiaotong Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, Peking University

In all: 12 monographs (7 authored alone and 5 co-authored); 3 edited books; 10 collections of papers and data compilations; 4 dictionaries and encyclopedias; 3 translated books; more than 140 papers. Below are only selected ones.

-Authored Books

Se Yin, Shaman Culture Studies in China, The Ethnic Publishing House, 2011.

Se Yin, Shamanism in Northeast Asia, China Social Sciences Press, 1998. (Awarded as Hu Sheng Youth Social Science Outstanding Achievement in 2003)

-Edited Books

Se Yin (edited by), Research on Mongolian Folk Culture and the Building of the Belt and Road Initiative, China Social Sciences Press, 2022.

Se Yin (edited by), Research on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Chinese Ethnic Minorities, Intellectual Property Publishing House, 2019.

-Peer-reviewed Journal Papers (of recent years)

Se Yin, Li Zhengyu, “On Gramsci’s View on Folklore,” Folklore Studies, No. 6, 2023.

Se Yin, “On the Transformation and Innovation of the Anthropological Ethnography Paradigm,” Social Sciences International, No. 1, 2023.

Se Yin, “The concept, type and research paradigm shift of cultural heritage in the new liberal arts perspective,” China Intangible Cultural Heritage, No. 2, 2022.

Se Yin, “Reform and Opening Up and the Prosperity and Development of Chinese Ethnology,” Journal of Northwestern Ethnic Studies, No. 1, 2019.

Se Yin, “Reflections on Thirty Years of National Culture Research,” National Arts, No. 1, 2017.

Frontiers of Anthropological Theory

Introduction to Ethnology

Fieldwork Methods

Principles of Folkloristics

Theories and Methods in Social Anthropology

Theories and Methods in the Anthropology of Religion

Special Lectures on Subfields of Cultural Anthropology

Introduction to Folklore

Religious Folklore

Religion Studies

Cultural Anthropology

Ethnographic Folklore Fieldwork

Vice President of the Chinese Ethnological Society;

Vice President of the Chinese Association of Anthropological Aesthetics;

Executive Council Member of the Chinese Association of Anthropology and Ethnology;

Member of the Second National Expert Committee on Ethnic Education;

Member of the Ethnology and Cultural Studies Terminology Review Committee under the National Committee for the Standardization of Scientific and Technical Terminology;

Chair of the Committee on Religious Folklore and Religious Arts, Chinese Association for the Study of Religion;

Executive Council Member of the Chinese Folklore Society;

Director of the Committee on Ecological Ethnology, Chinese Ethnological Society;

President of the Research Association for Northeast Asian Ethnic Cultures, Chinese Ethnological Society;

Executive Deputy Director of the Committee on Cultural Industries along the Silk Road, Chinese Association of Anthropology and Ethnology.

Editorial Board Member of the following journals:

Ethno-National Studies;

Northwest Ethnic Studies;

Journal of Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities;

Comparative Folklore Studies (Japanese).