黄涛

Huang Tao, born in 1964, is a Chinese folklorist with a doctorate in folklore from Beijing Normal University, where he studied under Zhong Jingwen. He taught at Renmin University of China for more than twenty years before moving to Wenzhou University in 2008. He is now a professor at Dehong Normal University, a doctoral supervisor in the School of Literature at Hebei University, editor-in-chief of the journal Folk Culture Forum, and vice president of the China Folklore Society. His research covers folk language, folk literature and traditional festivals, and he is the author of more than twenty books, including Language Folklore and Chinese Culture, An Introduction to Chinese Folk Literature and The Mid-Autumn Festival. Eight of his works are included in the library, spanning politics, culture, popular science, law and health. They range from academic titles such as Renewing China: The State and New Global History, French Neo-Hegelian Political Thought and Philosophy of Law and Common Life, to popular folklore books such as Festivals in China (5 volumes) and The Mid-Autumn Festival, as well as popular science works including Introduction to Quantum Field Theory and The Wonderful World of Particles, and the health book A Family That Loves Sports and Health, reflecting an interdisciplinary range of writing.