Notes on Contributors

230 / Journal of Daoist Studies 2 (2009) Notes on Contributors Shawn Arthur graduated from Boston University and is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Appalachian State University in Boone, N. Carolina. E‑mail: arthursd@appstate.edu. Chen Mei teaches in the English Department at Yunyang Teachers’ Col‑ lege in Danjiangkou, Hubei. Her research interests concern literature and Daoism, with a focus on the writings and representations of women in Daoist texts. Her recent work includes: “Poetry written by Daoist Nuns in the Song Dynasty.” E‑mail: chensnow930@yaoo.com.cn Charlotte Furth is Professor Emerita of Chinese History at the University of Southern California. Her books include A Flourishing Yin: Gender in Chinaʹs Medical History 960‑1665 (1999), and the recent edited volume (with Judith Zeitlin and Hsiung Pingchen), Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (2007). E‑mail: furth@usc.edu Wan‑Li Ho is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory University. She grew up in Taiwan and specializes in Chinese religious women and social activism. She has co‑authored The Tao of Jesus: An Experiment in Inter‑religious Un‑ derstanding and published numerous articles. E‑mail: who@emory.edu. Brian L. Kennedy is a criminal law teacher and Elizabeth Nai‑Jia Guo is a professional translator. Ms. Guo and Mr. Kennedy both live in Taiwan and co‑authored Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals: A Historical Sur‑ vey as well as two Chinese language books on legal ethics and witness examination. They have a large collection of photographs of religious activities and festivals in Taiwan that they love to share with everyone. E‑mail: brianlkennedy@gmail.com Kim Tae‑hyun is a graduate student at the Department of Religious Studies of Sogang University in South Korea. His M. A. thesis is on “Eco‑ logical Understanding of Zhuangziʹs Thought” (2007). E‑mail: an‑ gello0103@gmail.com News of the Field / 231 Louis Komjathy is Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Pacific Lutheran University. His dissertation on Quanzhen Daoism, Cultivating Perfection, appeared in 2007 (Leiden: E. Brill). E‑mail: komjathy@plu.edu Harrison Moretz is the director of the Taoist Studies Institute, Seattle. E‑ mail: harrison@taoiststudiesinstitute.org Volker Olles is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Si‑ nology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. His M.A. thesis on the first Celestial Master, Spuren des Himmelsmeisters, was published in 1998. His dissertation on a Daoist sacred mountain, Der Berg des Lao Zi in der Provinz Sichuan und die 24 Diözesen der daoistischen Religion, appeared in 2005. He currently studies the popular religious Liumen movement. E‑ mail: volker.olles@asa.hu‑berlin.de Todd Stoll is an independent scholar living in China. His work includes social semiotic studies of Daoist symbolism in the Ming novel Beiyou ji and Zhenwu murals of the Ming andQing dynasties in Hebei. E‑mail: chrs_stoll@yahoo.com. Blog: http://www.xuantianshangdi.blogspot.com/ Michael Winn is President of Healing Tao University at Heavenly Moun‑ tain, North Carolina. He is co‑author, with Mantak Chia, of Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy (1985). E‑mail: winn.dao@earth link.net. Website: www.HealingTaoUSA.com Yang Lizhi is a Professor of History at Yunyang Teachers’ College in Danjiangkou, Hubei, and is the President of the Wudang Culture Asso‑ ciation. His research interests are Chinese history, Daoism, and Wudang culture. He has published more than one hundred papers in academic journals and two books The History of Wudang Daoism (1993) and An Out‑ line of Wudang Culture (2008). E‑mail: ylz3344@sina.com ...