Sept 18
Class introduction; delegate readings for upcoming class presentations and assignments. Introduction to Shi Zhenhua and his Lives of the Nuns, Continued [震華 編. 續比丘尼傳1939]
Sept 25 and Oct 2
Biography and hagiography as genres
Selection from History and religion: Narrating a Religious Past.
Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2015.
Selection from Hagiography and Religious Truth: Case Studies in the Abrahamic and Dharmic traditions. Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing, London and New York, 2016.
“Introduction.” Sainted Women of the Dark Ages. Edited and translated by Jo Ann McNamara and John E. Halborg, with E. Gordon Whatley. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992.
“Introduction: Women, The Church, and the Law;” “Religious Life: Nuns and Nunneries.” In Jennifer Ward. Women in Medieval Europe 1200-1500. Pearson 2002.
Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History. Ed. Joan Judge and Hu Ying. UCal Press, 2011.
于君方著。 《比丘尼何以神聖？》聖傳與詩禪-中國文學與宗教論文集。
李豐楙,廖肇亨 主編。 中央研究院 2007.
Oct 9 and Oct 16
New Women/Modern Women in Republican China
Selection from The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory. Edited by Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Selection from Joan Judge, The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008.
“New Women in the Interwar Period.” Gender and Modernity in Modern East Asia. Edited by Barbara Molony, Janet Theiss, and Hyaeweol Choi. Westview: 2016.
Sarah E. Stevens, 2003. “Figuring modernity: The New Woman and the Modern Girl in Republican China.” NWSA Journal 15 (3) (Fall 2003): 82-103.
Vivian Shen, “From Xin nuxing to Liren Xing: Changing conceptions of the New Woman in Republican Era Chinese Films.” In Kuoshu, Harry H. 2002. Celluloid China: Cinematic encounters with culture and society. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
Oct. 23 and Oct 30
Religion and the State in Republican Era China
Selection from Rebecca Nedostup, Superstitious Regimes: Religion and Politics of Chinese Modernity. Harvard University Press, 2010.
Selection from Vincent Goossaert, The Religious Question in Modern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
“Introduction” to Recovering Buddhism in Modern China. Edited by Jan Kiely & J. Brooks Jessup. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
Nov. 6 and Nov. 13
“Modern Buddhist” Women
Selection from Gendering Chinese religion: Subject, identity, and body. Eds. Jia Jinhua, Xiaofei Kang, and Ping Yao. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2014.
Xiaofei Kang. “Women and the Religious Question in Modern China.” Modern Chinese Religion II: 1850-2015. Ed. by Vincent Goossaert, Jan Kiely, and John Lagerway. Brill 2016.
Elise Anne DeVido. “Networks and Bridges: Nuns in the Making of Modern Chinese Buddhism.” Chinese Historical Review, Special Issue on “Women and Buddhism in Chinese History, “ Vol. 22.1, May 2015, pp. 72-93.
Ester Bianchi. “Subtle Erudition and Compassionate Devotion: Longlian (1909-2006): ‘The Most Outstanding Bhiksuni’ in Modern China.” Making Saints in Modern China. Ownby, David, Vincent Goossaert and Ji Zhe, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Nov. 20 and Nov. 27
Lives of the Nuns
I.B. Horner. Women Under Primitive Buddhism. London: Routledge, 1930.
Alice Collett. 2016. Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Kathryn Ann Tsai. Lives of the Nuns: Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the Fourth to Sixth Centuries: A Translation of the Pi-ch’iu-ni chuan, compiled by Shi Pao-ch’ang. University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
John Kieschnick. The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography. U Hawaii, 1997.
Dec. 4， Dec. 11, Dec. 17
震華編. 續比丘尼傳(Lives of the Nuns, Continued) (1939).
Articles on Lives of the Nuns, Continued.
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