Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
Ph. D. Harvard University, 2002
Office: LSB 120
(520) 626-0171
e-mail: jiangwu (at) email.arizona.edu
Website: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jiangwu/
Teaches Chinese thought, religion and classical Chinese.
Dr. Jiang Wu is currently an associate professor in Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona (Tucson). He received his Masters degree from Nankai University (1994) and Ph.D. from Harvard University (2002). His research interests include seventeenth-century Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan/Zen 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 electronic cultural atlas tools in the study of Chinese culture and religion. He has published articles in Asia Major, Journal of East Asian History, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, and Monumenta Serica on a variety of topics. His first book Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China has been published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Right now, he is conducting research on the formation of the Jiaxing canon in late imperial China and writing a biography of Yinyuan Longqi.
Recent Books
Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Journal Articles
“Knowledge for What? The Buddhist Concept of Learning in the Śūramgama Sūtra,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 33.4 (December 2006): 491-503. 12 pages. Translated into Chinese by Xiaoyi Liu as “Duowen wugong lun: Lengyanjing zhong Fojiao de zhi yu xue,” “多闻无功论—《楞严经》中佛教的知与学.” Kant and Wisdom of Confucianism, edited by Center for Chinese Philosophy and Comparative Philosophy of Renmin University of China. Beijing: Renmin University Press 2008.
“Building a Dharma Transmission Monastery in Seventeenth-Century China: The Case of Mount Huangbo,” Journal of East Asian History 31 (June 2006): 29-52. 23 pages.
“Leaving for the Rising Sun: The Historical Background of Yinyuan Longqi’s Migration to Japan in 1654,” Asia Major (Third Series) vol. 17, part 2(2004): 89-120. 31 pages.
“Buddhist Logic and Apologetics in 17th century China: an Analysis of the Use of Buddhist Syllogisms in an Anti- Christian Polemic,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy II.2 (June 2003): 273-289. 16 pages.
“What is Jingjie? Defining Confucian Spirituality in the Modern Chinese Intellectual Context,” (Review article) Monumenta Serica 50 (2002): 441-462. 21 pages.
Visit Jiang Wu’s home page at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jiangwu/
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