YAO Shuang holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Tsinghua University, previously served as a Shuimu Scholar at Tsinghua University's Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences , and is currently a Lecturer in Comparative Literature and World Literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China. Her research focus on Chinese ethnic minority languages and literatures (particularly Tibetan studies), Tibetan art and textual studies, and Sino-Tibetan Buddhism and philologyresearch. Her co-editor work What Is Philology? and articles in core journals such as Literary Review, Studies of Ethnic Literature, China Tibetology, and Historical and Philological Studies of China's Western Regions.