Notes on Contributors
Sébastien Billioud
is Professor of Chinese Studies at University Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité and the Director of the Taipei branch of the French Center for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC). He is the author of monographs exploring the modern and contemporary fates of Confucianism: Thinking through Confucian Modernity, A Study of Mou Zongsan’s Moral Metaphysics (Brill, 2012), The Sage and the People, The Confucian Revival in China (co-authored with Joël Thoraval, Oxford, 2015) and Reclaiming the Wilderness, Contemporary Dynamics of the Yiguandao (forthcoming). Contact: sebastien.billioud@univ-paris-diderot.fr
Chen Bisheng (陳壁生)
holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and is a Professor at the Institute of National Studies (Guoxueyuan) of Renmin University in Beijing. His research focuses on the study of Chinese classics and on Chinese philosophy. He is the author of Jingxue, zhidu yu shenghuo: Lunyu fuzi xiangyin zhang shuzheng 經學、制度與生活—《論語》父子相隱章疏證, Jingxue de wajie 經學的瓦解 and Xiaojing xueshi 孝經學史, all published by East China Normal University Press, respectively in 2010, 2014 and 2015. Contact: bishengchen@163.org
Chen Jinguo (陳進國)
holds a Ph.D. degree in History and works as Research Fellow at the Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is the Chief Editor of Anthropology of Religion, Vice Chair of the Academic Committee of Anthropology of Religion of China, and Secretary of the Center for the Study of Bahai Faith at CASS. He has authored and edited five books on Chinese popular religion and folk tradition. Contact: jjydong@163.com
Chen Na (陳納)
is Research Fellow at the Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Dr. Chen received academic training in Comparative Literature at Peking University, Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and Sociology at Temple University; and he was a Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology at Harvard University. His current research covers sociology of religion and intercultural communication. Contact: nnchen@fudan.edu.cn
Chung Yun-ying (鍾雲鶯)
is Professor in the Department of Chinese Literature and Linguistics of Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan. Her research focuses on two main directions: The way Confucian classics are appropriated and interpreted by Chinese sectarian movements and the doctrines and history of Yiguandao in Taiwan. Among other works, she is the author of Qing mo Min chu minjian rujiao dui zhuliu ruxue de xishou yu zhuanhua 清末民初民間儒教對主流儒學的吸收與轉化 (Taida University Press, 2008) and of Minguo yilai minjian jiaopai “Daxue” “Zhongyong” sixiang zhi yanjiu 民國以來民間教派“大學”“中庸”思想之研究 (Huamulan, 2008). Contact: Yun-Ying@saturn.yzu.edu.tw
Fabrice Duléry
is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Studies at University Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité and a Professor of Chinese at Lycée Fénelon (classes préparatoires) in Paris. Contact: fabricedlr@gmail.com
Guillaume Dutournier
is Associate Researcher at the Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient and in charge of the EFEO Beijing Center since 2016. At the crossroads of history of Confucianism and anthropology of knowledge, his research focuses on intellectual controversies in premodern China, and on the educative and patrimonial aspects of contemporary Confucianism. He published an annotated translation of the philosophical controversy between Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan, Une Controverse lettrée (co-edited with Roger Darrobers, Les Belles Lettres, 2012), and has contributed to academic journals such as Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, Chinese Perspectives and Etudes chinoises.
Contact: guillaume.dutournier@efeo.net.
Fan Lizhu (范麗珠)
is Professor of Sociology and Director of Globalization and Religious Studies at Fudan University. As a pioneer scholar in the study of sociology of religion in China, she has engaged in historical and ethnographic studies of Chinese folk religious beliefs, sociological theories of religion, and the study of trends of religious beliefs in modern Chinese society. Contact: lizhufan@fudan.edu.cn
Ishii Tsuyoshi (石井剛)
is Professor of Chinese Modern Intellectual History and Philosophy at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His main publications include Qiwu de zhexue: Zhang Taiyan yu Zhongguo xiandai sixiang de Dongya jingyan 齐物的哲学：章太炎与中国现代思想的东亚经验 [Philosophy of the Equalization of Things: Zhang Taiyan and the Experience of East Asia in Modern Chinese Thought] (Huadong shifan daxue chubanshe, 2016), and Tai Shin to Chugoku kindai tetsugaku: Kangaku kara tetsugaku e 戴震と中国近代哲学：漢学から哲学へ [Dai Zhen and Chinese Modern Philosophy: from Philology to Philosophy] (Chisenshokan, 2014). Contact: ishiitsu@ask.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Ji Zhe (汲喆)
is Professor of Sociology at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité. He is also the Director of the Paris-based Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Buddhism and a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His main study areas are Buddhism and the relationship between state and religion. He is the author of Religion, modernité et temporalité: Une sociologie du bouddhisme chan contemporain (CNRS Editions, 2016) and the co-editor (with Vincent Goossaert and David Ownby) of Making Saints in Modern China (Oxford, 2017). Contact: zhe.ji@inalco.fr
Nakajima Takahiro (中島隆博)
is Professor of Chinese Philosophy and Comparative Philosophy at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo. His interest focuses on the contemporary Confucian revival in China and Japan. His publications include Language qua Thought (Iwanami 2017), Philosophy of the Evil (Chikuma-shobo, 2012), Praxis of Co-existence: State and Religion (University of Tokyo Press, 2011), The Zhuangzi (Iwanami, 2009), Philosophy in Humanities (Iwanami 2009) and The Reverberation of Chinese Philosophy: Language and Politics (University of Tokyo Press, 2007). Contact: nakajima@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Anna Sun
is Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Kenyon College, USA. Her book Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities was published in 2013 by Princeton University Press. Her forthcoming book is on the social life of prayer in contemporary urban China. Contact: suna@kenyon.edu
Wang Chien-chuan (王見川)
is Assistant Professor at the Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on Chinese popular religion (Guandi, Xuantian shangdi, Wenchang, Mazu), prophetic texts, late imperial popular religion, and contemporary Daoism, Buddhism, spirit-writing, and charity. He has written Zhang tianshi zhi yanjiu: yi Longhushan yixi wei kaocha zhongxin 張天師之研究：以龍虎山一系為考察中心; Hanren zongjiao, minjian zongjiao, minjian xinyang yu yuyanshu de tansuo 漢人宗教, 民間信仰與預言書的探索; and edited Mingqing minjian zongjiao jingjuan wenxian 明清民間宗教經卷文獻; and Zhongguo minjian xinyang, minjian wenhua zhiliao huibian 中國民間信仰, 民間文化資料彙編. Contact: chien_chuan@hotmail.com
Wang Yuchen (王宇琛)
is a Ph.D. candidate in Historical Folkloristic Studies at Beijing Normal University. Her current research focuses on the modern transformations of local schooling institutions in the Republican era, and on local dimensions of contemporary cultural heritage practices. Contact: kaiqieluo@163.com