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451 josé ignacio cabezón is the XIVth Dalai Lama Professor of Tibetan Buddhism at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of the online book collection The Hermitages of Sera, which includes essays, images, and interactive maps on the Tibetan monastery; Freedom from Extremes: Gorampa’s “Distinguishing the Views” and the Polemics of Emptiness (2006); and Buddhism and Language: A Study of Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism (1994). prasenjit duara 杜贊奇 is Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900–1942 (1988), Rescuing History from the Nation (1995), and Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (2003). In 2008 he joined the National University of Singapore as Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. ryan dunch 唐日安 is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics and Chair of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He is the author of Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China, 1857–1927 (2001), as well as articles and book reviews. His current research is on missionary publishing in Chinese before 1911. He also serves as one of the editors of the online Asian Studies scholarly network, H-ASIA. dru c. gladney 杜磊 is President of the Pacific Basin Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College in Claremont, California. His books include Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People’s Republic (1991, 1996); Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality (1998); and Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Sub-Altern Subjects (2004). vincent goossaert 高萬桑 is a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, and since 2004 has served as Deputy Director Contributors UC-Yang-rev.indd 451 UC-Yang-rev.indd 451 8/27/2008 1:02:36 PM 8/27/2008 1:02:36 PM 452 / Contributors of the Societies-Religions-Secularisms Institute (GSRL, Paris). His most recent book is The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics (2007), and he is coauthor with David Palmer of the forthcoming The Religious Question in Modern China. He is directing an international research project (2007–2010) on “Taoists and Temples in modern Modern Chinese Cities” and writing monographs on the politics of religion in late Qing China and on Chinese religious specialists. ji zhe 汲喆 is a postdoctoral fellow at the Societies-Religions-Secularisms Institute (GSRL) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. He is interested in issues of religious recomposition in contemporary Chinese societies, such as the revitalization of Buddhism, the reinvention of Confucianism, and the increasing youth religiosity. His articles have appeared in Perspectives Chinoises, Social Compass, Cahiers internationaux de sociologie , and other journals. ya-pei kuo 郭亞珮 is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University in Boston. She earned her doctorate from the Department of History, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison. Her forthcoming book is tentatively entitled Culture, Identity, and History: Critical Review and Conservatism in Modern China. richard madsen 趙文詞 is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of California, San Diego, and a coauthor (with Robert Bellah et al.) of The Good Society (1991) and the awardwinning Habits of the Heart (1985). His books on China include Morality and Power in a Chinese Village (1984), for which he received the C. Wright Mills Award, and Democracy’ s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan (2007). rebecca nedostup 張倩雯 is Assistant Professor of Chinese history at Boston College. Her forthcoming book, tentatively entitled Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity, focuses on the Nationalist era. Her research has also appeared in the International Review of Social History, in Dennis Washburn and A. Kevin Reinart, eds., Converting Cultures (2007), and in Sarah Schneewind, ed., Long Live the Emperor! (2008). david a. palmer 宗樹人 is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong University. He received his Ph.D. from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris) in 2002. His book Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China was published in 2007, and he is completing book manuscripts on The Religious Question in Modern China (with Vincent Goossaert) and Global Taoism: The Search for Authenticity (with Elijah Siegler). benjamin penny 裴 凝 is a research scholar at the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University, specializing in the study of medieval Daoism, religion and spiritual movements in modern and contemporary UC-Yang-rev.indd 452 UC-Yang-rev.indd...

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