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.