Haiying Yang (Yang Haiying, born 1964) is a cultural anthropologist and Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shizuoka University. Born in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, he graduated from Beijing Second Foreign Languages Institute before moving to Japan in 1989, where he earned a doctorate from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies. His research focuses on Mongolian history, nomadic culture, and ethnic relations across Eurasia, and he is particularly known for documenting the Cultural Revolution and ethnic persecution in Inner Mongolia through extensive historical research. His best-known book, "Tombstone-less Grassland: A Record of the Cultural Revolution and Massacres in Inner Mongolia," examines the large-scale persecution that took place in Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution based on archival sources and eyewitness testimony. The book received the Ryotaro Shiba Prize and has become an important work on the modern history of Inner Mongolia.