Deng Minwen, of the Dong minority, is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Ethnic Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; his research interests are Dong Oral Tradition and its literary representations. His books include On The Literary History of China’s Many Ethnic Groups (1995), The History of Literary Relations between Southern Ethnic Groups (vol. 2, 2001) and On Divine Judgments (1991). He is editor-in-chief of The History of Dong Literature (1998) and co-author of The Kingdom Without a King: A Study on Dong Kuan (1995).