Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies
Ph. D. Harvard University, 2002
Office: LSB 120
(520) 626-0171
e-mail: jiangwu (at) email.arizona.edu
Teaches Chinese thought, religion and classical Chinese.
Research interests include seventeenth-century Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan Buddhism, the role of Buddhist canons in the formation of East Asian Buddhist culture, and the historical exchanges between Chinese Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism.
Other interests include Confucianism, Chinese intellectual history and social history, and the application of Geographic Information System (GIS) in the study of Chinese religion. His dissertation, Orthodoxy, Controversy and the Transformation of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China (Harvard, 2002), investigates the intellectual and social origins of the Japanese Obaku school in China. He has completed a book manuscript entitled: “Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China.”
Recent Articles:
“Knowledge for What? The Concept of Learning in the Surangama Sutra.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, December, 2006 (in press).
“Building a Dharma Transmission Monastery: Mount Huangbo in Seventeenth-century China.” Journal of East Asian History, no. 31, June, 2006 (forthcoming).
“Leaving for the Rising Sun: The Historical Background of Yinyuan Longqi’s Migration to Japan in 1654.” Asia Major (Third Series) volume 17, part 2, (2004): 89-120.
“Buddhist Logic and Apologetics in Seventeenth-century China: an Analysis of the Use of Buddhist Syllogisms in an Anti-Christian Polemic.” in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy II.2 (June 2003): 273-289.
“Orthodoxy, Controversy and the Transformation of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China: With Special Attention to the Establishment of the Japanese Obaku School.” in Hua Lin Buddhist Journal (published by the Institute of Oriental Studies at Peking University) 3 (Spring 2003): 291-312.
“What is Jingjie? Defining Confucian Spirituality in Modern Chinese Intellectual Context.” (Review article) in Monumenta Serica 50 (2002): 441-462.
Book Reviews:
“Review of Victor Hori’s Zen Sand.” Journal of Buddhist Ethics, forthcoming.
“Review of Feng Yaoming’s Chaoyue neizai de misi: Cong Fenxi zhexue guandian kan dangdai Xin Ruxue.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy IV. 4 (Winter 2004): 168-171.
“Review of Yifa’s The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes
in China.” Journal of Asian Studies 62. 3 (Aug. 2003):
947-949.
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