Religion and Gender in China symposium

Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies presents:
Religion and Gender in 20th Century China: An International Symposium

Organized by Kang Xiaofei, George Washington University
Elena Valussi, Loyola University, Chicago
Xun Liu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Dates: Fri and Sat, Oct 9-10, 2015
Venue: 301 Van Dyck Hall, College Ave Campus, Rutgers University

Conference schedule:

Friday 10/9, 2015: 

9:30-11:30 AM:   Panel 1: Women, Gender and Religious Practices in Republican Era

Beata Grant, East Asian Studies, Washington University

The Many Lives of Zhang Shenghui (1900-1967): Poet, Reformer, Educator, Laywoman and Nun

Xun Liu, History, Rutgers University

 Women and Their Daoist Inner Alchemy Practice as Seen in Two Early 20th Century Journals

Elena Valussi, History, Loyola University, Chicago

Gender, Religion, and Nationalism in Chen Yingning’s work on Female Alchemy

Discussant: Kang Xiaofei

11:30AM-1:00 PM:   Lunch Break

1:15-2:45 PM:  Panel 2: Gender, Nationalism, Anti-superstition Campaigns in 20TH Century China

Xia Shi, History, New College of Florida/UCI

Women, Superstition, and the Reorientation towards Charity—The Case of Daoyuan

Xiaofei Kang, Religious Studies, George Washington University

Quelling the “Red-Shoed Female Demon:” Gender and Anti-Superstition in Communist Propaganda, 1944-45

Discussant: Beata Grant

2:45-3:00 PM:            Tea Break

3:00-5:00 PM:  Panel 3: Women’s Practices among Ethnic Minorities in Post-1949 China/Taiwan

Neky Cheung, History Department, University of Macau.

Lay Buddhist Women’s Jiezhu Practice in the Post-1949 South China

Huang Pingying, Assistant Research Fellow, Center for Hakka Studies, National Central University, Taiwan

“The Religious Life of Contemporary Female Disciples of the Phoenix in Puli, Taiwan

Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee

“Gendering Minzu and Zongjiao: The Goddess Baijie in 1930s-1950s Yunnan

Discussant: Mayfair Yang

Saturday 10/10, 2015: 

9:00-10:45 AM:  Panel 4: Gender and Women’s Agency in Contemporary Chinese Religion

Adeline Herrou, Centre nationale de la recherché scientifique, Paris.

The Greatest Daoist Nun under Heaven: Gender Issues and Quanzhen Monasticism in Contemporary China

Mayfair Yang, Religious Studies/Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara

Of Mothers and Goddesses:  Religiosity and Women’s Agency in Wenzhou

Discussant: Elena Valussi

10:45-11:00AM:        Tea Break

11:00-Noon:              Roundtable Discussion:

Common issues and publication plans

Noon:                         Lunch and farewell

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