Huaiyu Chen

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES in English

1. Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science. London: Anthem Press, 2023.
2. 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. 
3. Co-ed. with Edward Q. Wang, Chinese Studies in History, 53: 3 Special Issue on Dunhuang Studies, 2020.
4. 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).
5. The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China. American University Studies. (New York: Peter Lang, 2007).

In Progress:

1. Buddhism, Christianity, and Daoism along the Silk Road.
2. The Everlasting Torch of Wisdom: Performing Stone Lanterns in Medieval East Asian Buddhism.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. 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.
2. “A Failed Attempt to Create an International Community of Communist East Asian Studies in 1955.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 48: 2 (2022), 39-58.
3. “The Rise of the “Asian History” in Mainland China in the 1950s: A Global Perspective.” Global Intellectual History 7: 2 (2022), pp. 282-302.
4. “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.
5. “The Changing Images of Zodiac Animals in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature.” Nesir Journal of Literary Studies vol. 1 (2021), 37-54.
6. “From Orientalism to Cultural Nationalism: Decentralizing European Buddhology in Early Twentieth-century China.” History of Humanities 6: 2 (2021), 549-569.
7. “Orientalisms in China.” Special Issue “What’s in a Name.” Journal Of the Society for Asian Humanities 52 (2020-2021), 141-146.
8. “The Other as the Transformed Alliance: Living with the Tiger in Medieval Chinese Daoism.” Polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren 45 (2021), 5-22.  
9. “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.
10. 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.
11. “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.
12. “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.
13. “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.
14. “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.
15.  “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.
16. 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.
17. “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.
18. “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.
19. “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.
20. “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.
21. “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

1. “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.
2. “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.
3. “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.
4. “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.
5. “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.
6. 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.
7. “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.
8. “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).
9.  “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.
10. “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.
11. “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.
12. “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.
13. “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.
14. “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:

1. Review. Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China. China Review International 27: 2 (2022), pp. 124-127.
2. 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.
3. Review. Liz P. Y. Chee, Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China. Chinese Historical Review 29: 1 (2022), pp. 67-69.
4. Review. Imre Galambos, Dunhuang Manuscript Culture: End of the First Millennium. East Asian Publishing and Society 12 (2022), pp. 95-98.
5. 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.
6. Review. Wilt L. Idema, Insects in Chinese Literature: A Study and Anthology. China Review International 26: 1 & 2 (2019), pp. 78-81.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Review. Reiko Ohnuma, Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination. Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 77, no. 3 (2018), pp. 828-830. 
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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. 
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Review. Wang Mingke, Qiang zai Han Zang zhijian. Frontiers of History in China 6: 1 (2010), pp. 144-147.
16. Review. Carolyn Chen, Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience. Journal of Law and Religion 25: 1 (2009), pp. 237-242.
17. 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.
18. 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.

1. 《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。
2. 《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。
3. 《景風梵聲：中古宗教之諸相》，北京：宗教文化出版社，2012年。
4. 《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。
5. 《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。
6. 《讀書何妨為人忙》，日知叢書，杭州：浙江古籍出版社，2020年。
7. 《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。
8. 《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。