Huaiyu Chen
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School of Hist, Phil, and Rel Studies Arizona State University PO Box 874302 Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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Huaiyu Chen is an associate professor of religious studies at the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, with a joint appointment at the School of International Letters and Cultures. He has also held several visiting positions in North America, Europe, and Asia, such as a membership of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2011-2012, a Spalding Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall of Cambridge University in 2014-2015, a visiting professorship at Beijing Normal University in June-July 2015, a visiting scholarship at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin in June-July, 2018, and a visiting scholarship at Institute for Religions and Ethics of Tsinghua University in August, 2018.
- Ph.D. Princeton University 2005
- M.A. Beijing University
- B.A. Beijing Normal University
My research interests include cultural and religious links between China and Central/South Asia, Buddhism and Nestorian Christianity, Religions on the Silk Road, Dunhuang Manuscripts, cultural and religious history of medieval China, Animals in Chinese religions, Buddhist rituals and monasticism, and modern Chinese intellectual history.
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES in English
- Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science. London: Anthem Press, 2023.
- In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions. Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.
- Co-ed. with Edward Q. Wang, Chinese Studies in History, 53: 3 Special Issue on Dunhuang Studies, 2020.
- Co-ed. with Rong Xinjiang, Great Journeys across Pamir. Festschrift in Honor of Professor Zhang Guangda for his Eighty-fifth Birthday. Inner Asian Library series (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
- The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China. American University Studies. (New York: Peter Lang, 2007).
In Progress:
- Buddhism, Christianity, and Daoism along the Silk Road.
- The Everlasting Torch of Wisdom: Performing Stone Lanterns in Medieval East Asian Buddhism.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
- co-authored with Min Xiangpeng. “839-841: The Disastrous Years that Reshaped the Political Map of Central Asia.” Central Asiatic Journal vol. 65, no.1-2 (2022), pp. 201-216.
- “A Failed Attempt to Create an International Community of Communist East Asian Studies in 1955.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 48: 2 (2022), 39-58.
- “The Rise of the “Asian History” in Mainland China in the 1950s: A Global Perspective.” Global Intellectual History 7: 2 (2022), pp. 282-302.
- “Making Four Buddhist Worlds: A Reading of the Liturgies for Creating Ritual Spaces in Dunhuang Manuscripts.” Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies 4: 2 (2021), 1-36.
- “The Changing Images of Zodiac Animals in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature.” Nesir Journal of Literary Studies vol. 1 (2021), 37-54.
- “From Orientalism to Cultural Nationalism: Decentralizing European Buddhology in Early Twentieth-century China.” History of Humanities 6: 2 (2021), 549-569.
- “Orientalisms in China.” Special Issue “What’s in a Name.” Journal Of the Society for Asian Humanities 52 (2020-2021), 141-146.
- “The Other as the Transformed Alliance: Living with the Tiger in Medieval Chinese Daoism.” Polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren 45 (2021), 5-22.
- “From Germanist to Sinologist: The Transnational Journey of an American Progressive in Early 20th-Century China.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 48: 2 (2021), 125-148.
- Co-authored with Min Xiangpeng. “Animals, Divination, and Climate: An Environmental Note on the Cult of the Pig in Ancient China.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 28 (2021), firstview article.
- “The Cult of Cintamani: On the Nature of the Dunhuang Manuscript P. 4518 (10) and its Context.” Chinese Studies in History 53: 3 (2020), 227-241.
- “A Study on a Stone Lantern from Dongzhang Village in Medieval China.” Studies in Chinese Religions 5: 2 (2019), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/23729988.2019.1676085.
- “The Road to Redemption: Killing Snakes in Medieval Chinese Buddhism.” Religions 2019, 10(4), special issue: Buddhist Beasts in Asia, 247; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10040247.
- “Transforming Beasts and Engaging with Local Communities: Tiger Violence in Medieval Chinese Buddhism.” Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies. Vol. 3, No. 1, Special Issue “Animals without Border,” (2018), 31-60.
- “The Benji jing and the Anle jing: Reflections on Two Daoist and Christian Manuscripts from Turfan and Dunhuang.” Studies in Chinese Religions vol. 1, no. 3 (Routledge, 2015), 209-228.
- Co-authored with Liu Zhen. “Some Reflections on an Early Mahāyāna Text Hastikakṣyasūtra.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies vol. 77, No. 2, (Cambridge, England, 2014), 293-312.
- “The Rise and Fall of the Scriptural Platform in Medieval Chinese Buddhism.” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief vol. 9, no. 2 (Routledge, 2013), 140-165.
- “Newly Identified Khotanese Fragments in the British Library and their Chinese Parallels.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society vol. 22, no. 2 (Cambridge, England, 2012), 265-279.
- “A Brief Note on the Khotanese Fragment SI M 38 in the St. Petersburg Collection.” Manuscripta Orientalia: International Journal of Oriental Manuscript Research vol. 16, no. 1 (St. Petersburg, Russia, 2010), 65-67.
- “Chinese Language Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Turfan in the Princeton University East Asian Library.” East Asian Library Journal vol. 14, no. 2 (Princeton, NJ, 2010), 1-208, with 68 illustrations.
- “A Buddhist Classification of Plants and Animals in Early Tang China.” Journal of Asian History vol. 43, no. 1 (Wiesbaden, Germany, 2009), 31-51.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- “Sailing to China: The Transnational Experience of Gregory Dexter Walcott at Tsinghua.” In: Jeffrey Kyong-McClain and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee eds., Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on Sino-American Educational Exchange (London: Routledge), forthcoming.
- “Zoomancy/divination by animals.” Handbook of Chinese Divination Techniques, compiled by International Consortium for Research in Humanities (IKGF) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, edited by Stephan N. Kory (Leiden: Brill), forthcoming.
- “Textuality and Materiality: A Comparative Perspective on Buddhist and Daoist Stone Lanterns in Tang China.” In A Forest of Knowledge: A Collection of Essays on Texts and Image in Celebration of Professor Koichi Shinohara’s Eightieth Birthday, ed. by Jinhua Chen. Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies VI. (Singapore: World Scholastic Publishers, 2022), pp. 345-386.
- “Plant Science and Technology in Medieval China.” In: A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-classical Era. Ed. by Alain Touwaide. Vol. 2, Ch. 4 (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), pp. 79-99.
- “Shared Issues in a Shared Textual Community: Buddhism, Christianity and Daoism in Medieval China.” In: Samuel N. Lieu and Glen Thompson eds., The Church of the East in Central Asia and China (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2020), pp. 93-109.
- Co-authored with Zhang Xing. “From Lion to Tiger: The Buddhist Changing Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts.” In: Rotem Rosen, Michal Biran, Meir shahar, and Gideon Shelach eds., Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical and Ethical Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 331-353.
- “Honoring the Dead: The Buddhist Reinvention of Funeral Literature, Ritual, and Material Culture in Early Medieval China.” In: Mu-chou Poo and H. A. Drake eds., Old Society, New Belief: Religious Transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 91-105.
- “Notes on the Medieval Buddhist Stone Sūtras from Qionglai, Sichuan.” In: Ikeda Takumi池田巧 ed., The East Asian Studies: Collection of Articles in Honor of Professor Tokio Takata’s Retirement (Tohogaku Kenkyū ronshū: Takata Tokio kyōju Taishoku kinen ronshū), (Kyoto: Rinsen Shoten, 2014), pp. 13-28 (L).
- “East Asian Transformation of Monasticism.” In: Mario Poceski ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), pp. 299-318.
- “Society and Religious Patronage along the Silk Road: The Inscriptional Evidence from Turfan.” In: Wendy Swartz, Robert F. Campany, Yang Lu, and Jessey Choo eds., Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), pp. 176--193.
- “Multiple Traditions in One Ritual: A Reading of the Buddhist Liturgical Texts for Lantern Ritual in Dunhuang Manuscripts.” In: Tansen Sen ed., Buddhism across Asia: Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange (Singapore: Institute for South East Asian Studies and New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2014), pp. 233-257.
- “Sharing the Karma: Some Reflections on the Dialogue between Catholicism and Buddhism.” In: James L. Heft ed., Catholicism and Interreligious Dialogue (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 153-159.
- “The Encounter of Nestorian Christianity with Tantric Buddhism in Medieval China.” In: Dietmar Winkler and Tang Li eds., Hidden Treasures and Intercultural Encounters: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia (Berlin and Münster: LIT Verlag, 2009), pp. 195-213.
- “The Connection between Nestorian and Buddhist Texts in Late Tang China.” In: Roman Malek ed., The Church of the East in China and Central Asia (Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2006), pp. 93-113.
Book Reviews:
- Review. Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China. China Review International 27: 2 (2022), pp. 124-127.
- Review. Yang Mingzhang, Shenyi gantong, Huali youqing: Dunhuang gaoseng zhuanzan wenxian yanjiu (Divine Marvels and Spiritual Resonance, Transforming and Benefiting Sentient Beings: A Study on the Biographies and Eulogies in the Dunhuang Manuscripts). Chinese Studies in History 55: 1-2 (2022), 163-164.
- Review. Liz P. Y. Chee, Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China. Chinese Historical Review 29: 1 (2022), pp. 67-69.
- Review. Imre Galambos, Dunhuang Manuscript Culture: End of the First Millennium. East Asian Publishing and Society 12 (2022), pp. 95-98.
- Review. Yang Shao-Yun, The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China. Chinese Historical Review 28: 1 (2021), pp. 93-95.
- Review. Wilt L. Idema, Insects in Chinese Literature: A Study and Anthology. China Review International 26: 1 & 2 (2019), pp. 78-81.
- Review. E. Elena Songster. Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China’s Modern Icon. China Review International 26: 1 & 2 (2019), pp. 110-114.
- Review. Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer eds., Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 30: 2 (2020), pp. 376-378.
- Review. Reiko Ohnuma, Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination. Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 77, no. 3 (2018), pp. 828-830.
- Review. N. Harry Rothschild, Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers. Journal of Chinese Religions 45: 2 (2017), pp. 218-220.
- Review. Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank eds., Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. 2009. Journal of Law and Religion 28: 1 (2012-2013), pp. 267-269.
- Review. Tjalling H. F. Halbertsma, Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia: Discovery, Reconstruction, and Appropriation. In Frontiers of History in China 7: 1, 2012, pp. 159-161.
- Review. Don Wyatt, The Blacks in Pre-modern China. The Historian (Journal of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society) 73: 3 (2011), pp. 605-606.
- Review. Zhang Xiaogui, A Study of Sinicized Zoroastrianism in Medieval China (Zhonggu huahua xianjiao kaoshu). Iranian Studies (Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies) 44: 3, 2011, pp. 447-449.
- Review. Wang Mingke, Qiang zai Han Zang zhijian. Frontiers of History in China 6: 1 (2010), pp. 144-147.
- Review. Carolyn Chen, Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience. Journal of Law and Religion 25: 1 (2009), pp. 237-242.
- Review. Eric Reinders, Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion. Sino-Christian Studies: An International Journal of Bible, Theology & Philosophy 7 (2009), pp. 205-210.
- Review. Shoun Hino & Toshihiro Wada eds., Three Mountains and Seven Rivers. Professor Musaishi Tachikawa’s Felicitation Volume. Journal of Humanistic Buddhism 7 (2006), pp. 483-485.
I have also published numerous books and articles in Chinese.
- 《動物與中古政治宗教秩序》,復旦文史叢書,上海:上海古籍出版社,2012年, 2020年增訂。
- 《傳教士論中國宗教:以慕維廉<五教通考>為中心》,上海:上海人民出版社,2012年。
- 《景風梵聲:中古宗教之諸相》,北京:宗教文化出版社,2012年。
- 《在西方發現陳寅恪:中國近代人文學的東方學與西學背景》,新史學叢書,北京:北京師範大學出版社,2013年,簡體版。香港三聯書店,2015年,繁體字版。
- 《敦煌三夷教與中古社會》(與姚崇新、王媛媛合著),敦煌講座叢書,蘭州:甘肅教育出版社,2013年。
- 《讀書何妨為人忙》,日知叢書,杭州:浙江古籍出版社,2020年。
- 《清華與“一戰”:美籍教授的中國經驗》,文化中國研究叢書,杭州:浙江古籍出版社,2021年。
- 《從普林斯頓到萊頓:中國史學走向世界》,台北:秀威資訊科技有限公司,2023年。
- Chen,Huaiyu*, Chen,Huaiyu*, Chen,Huaiyu*. The Rise of Buddhist Ordination Platform in Medieval China. CHIANG (CHING-KUO) FDN(7/15/2008 - 6/30/2009).
Courses
2023 Spring
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REL 494 | Special Topics |
REL 494 | Special Topics |
CHI 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
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CHI 795 | Continuing Registration |
REL 690 | Reading and Conference |
REL 351 | Buddhism |
REL 351 | Buddhism |
REL 207 | Ritual, Symbol, and Myth |
REL 207 | Ritual, Symbol, and Myth |
2022 Spring
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CHI 795 | Continuing Registration |
2021 Spring
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CHI 598 | Special Topics |
REL 351 | Buddhism |
REL 351 | Buddhism |
2020 Fall
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REL 351 | Buddhism |
REL 351 | Buddhism |
REL 207 | Ritual, Symbol, and Myth |
REL 207 | Ritual, Symbol, and Myth |
2020 Spring
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CHI 598 | Special Topics |
REL 351 | Buddhism |
2019 Fall
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REL 307 | Religion: Theory and Practice |
REL 307 | Religion: Theory and Practice |
REL 351 | Buddhism |
2019 Spring
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CHI 598 | Special Topics |
REL 351 | Buddhism |
2018 Fall
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REL 351 | Buddhism |
2018 Spring
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CHI 598 | Special Topics |
REL 494 | Special Topics |
REL 207 | Ritual, Symbol, and Myth |
1. October 26-28, 2017. “The Rise of the “Asian History” in Mainland China in the 1950s: A Global Perspective.” The Conference “Conceptions of the World in Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography.” University of Göttingen, Germany.
2. August 20-25, 2017. “Liturgies for Creating Four Mandalas in Dunhuang Manuscripts.” The XVIIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. Toronto, Canada.
3. November 19-22, 2016. Discussant for Panel “Buddhist Art, Law, and Manuscript Culture in Dunhuang.” The Annual Conference of American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas.
4. April 15, 2016. “Theory without Borders in Comparative Area Studies: Timing States in South and East Asia.” Symposium organized by the Department of Religion and Culture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
5. November 21-24, 2015. “Living with Tigers in Medieval Chinese Religions.” 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA.
2021. Research Scholarship. Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Germany.
2018. August. Visiting Scholarship. Institute for Religion and Ethcis, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
2018. June-July. Visiting Scholarship. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, Germany.
2016. Research Grant. American Academy of Religion.
2014-2015. Spalding Visiting Fellowship, Clare Hall, Cambridge University.
2011-2012. Membership. Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
2008-2009. Junior Scholar Grant. Chiang Ching-kuo Founation for International Scholarly Exchange.
American Academy of Religion
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Association for Asian Studies
American Oriental Society
International Association for Buddhist Studies
- Silk Road Studies (Xi'an), Editorial Board Member (2022-Present)
- Chinese Studies in History (Routledge), Editorial Board Member (2021-Present)
- Journal of Jiangxi Culture (Nanchang), Editorial Board Member (2015 - Present)
- Journal of Dunhuang Studies (Taiwan), Editorial Board Member (2015 - Present)
- Studies in Chinese Religions (Routledge), Editorial Board Member (2014 - Present)
- Singaporean Journal of Buddhist Studies, Editorial Board member (2012 - Present)
- Journal of Humanities and Religious Studies, Editorial Board Member (2011 - Present)