New Books in Chinese Religions
2025 Featured Books:
- Ting Guo, Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China (Amsterdam University Press, 2025)
- Maria Jaschok, Inside the Expressive Culture of Chinese Women's Mosques: ‘This Turmoil of the Soul’ (Routledge, 2025)
- Matthew King, In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (Columbia University Press, 2022)
- Jeffrey Kotyk, Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity (Brill, 2024)
- Thomas Mazanec, Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China (Cornell University Press, 2024)
- David Mozina, Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2021)
- Wei Wu, Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949 (Columbia University Press, 2024)
2024 Featured Books:
- Tristan Brown, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton University Press, 2023)
- Huaiyu Chen, In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions (Columbia University Press, 2023)
- Kang Xiaofei, Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953 (Oxford University Press, 2023)
- Gil Raz, Anna Shields, eds., Religion and Poetry in Medieval China: The Way and the Words (Amsterdam University Press, 2023)
- Matthias Schumann, Elena Valussi, eds., Communicating with the Gods: Spirit-Writing in Chinese History and Society (Brill, 2023)
- Chuen-Fung Wong, Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023)
2023 Featured Books:
- Jessey Choo, Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China (University of Hawai’i Press, 2022)
- Stéphanie Homola, The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng (Berghahn, 2023)
- Jifeng Liu, Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen (Penn State University Press, 2022)
- Brian Nichols, Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds: Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China (University of Hawai'i Press, 2022)
- Jacopo Scarin, The Tongbai Palace and Its Daoist Communities: A History (Editrice Cafoscarina, 2023)
- Richard G. Wang, Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks: Daoism and Local Society in Ming China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2022)
- Nicole Willock, Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China (Columbia University Press, 2021)
2022 Featured Books:
- Peng Mu, Religion and Religious Practices in Rural China (Routledge, 2020)
- Gail King, "A Model for all Christian Women": Candida Xu, a Chinese Christian Woman of the Seventeenth Century (Routledge, 2021)
- Jens Reinke, Mapping Modern Mahayana: Chinese Buddhism and Migration in the Age of Global Modernity (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021)
- Geoffrey Goble, Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2019)
- Yang Hongfan, Ite missa est: Ritual Interactions around Mass in China (1583-1720) (Brill, 2021)
- Dominic Steavu, The Writ of the Three Sovereigns: From Local Lore to Institutional Daoism (University of Hawai'i Press, 2019)
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