YANG, Huilin is a Professor of School of Liberal Arts,  former Vice President of Renmin University of China‌;

Main research fields include: Comparative Literature and World Literature, Western Literary Theory, Religious Studies, and Christianity. Major publications include: At the Boundary of Literature and Theology , Searching for the Meaning , etc. The collection of his papers in English include Christianity in China: the Work of Yang Huilin， China, Christianity and Questions of Culture,  which was awarded Christianity Today's 2015 Book Awards in the United States.