Ling Chun Sheng (1902 to 1981), who also went by Minfu and Runsheng, was born in Jiangsu, Chang Zhou. He was a Chinese ethnologist, anthropologist and musician. He attended University of Paris, France in 1926 and received his Ph.D. in 1929. Upon returning back to China, he served as Director of the Central Government Ministry of Education, a researcher at the Central Research Institute of Ethnology group Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Education Secretary, Frontier Education Secretary, National Frontier Culture Education Curator, National Central University, Department of Frontier Politics Professor and Department director. 1949 -1959, he was elected a Fellow of Academia Sinica. Upon arriving in Taiwan in 1956, he became the founding director of the Institute of Ethnology at the Academia Sinica Institute. He is most known for his research on the Hezhe ethnic group who resided by the Songhua river, which was the first scientific national fieldwork in China. Afterwards, he and Rui Yifu investigated ethnic groups throughout China, while also focusing on the Asian continent, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and Oceania (otherwise known as the Pacific Rim). They conducted comparative studies on material culture (such as bark-clothing culture, dolmen culture, stone daggers etc.).