Education

Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

M.A. in Regional Studies: East Asia, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

B.A. in History (Cum Laude; With Distinction in All Subjects), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Work Experience

Resident Director, Council on International Educational Exchange, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan (Aug. 1996~June 1999)

Researcher and Secretary-General, Taipei Ricci Institute for Chinese Studies, Taipei, Taiwan (Sept. 1999~July 2001)

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan (Aug. 1995~July 2000)

Associate Professor, Department of History, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (Sept. 2001~July 2009)

Assistant Professor, Department of History, St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY (Aug. 2009~Aug. 2012)

Executive Director, Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Aug. 2012~June 2013)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History; Research Assistant for Course Development and Enhancement; Masters Students Tutor, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC (Spring 2014)

Instructor and Curriculum Consultant, Summer High School Session, Duke University, Durham, NC and Shanghai, China (Summer 2014)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History; Masters Students Tutor, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC (Fall 2014)

Masters Students Tutor, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC (Spring 2015)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History; Masters Students Tutor, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC (Spring 2016)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Global Learning Semester, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China (Fall 2015; Fall 2016~June 2018)

Sheng Yen Foundation Visiting Fellow in Chinese Buddhism, Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, National Chengchi University, Wenshan District, Taipei, Taiwan (Fall 2018)

Adjunct Associate Professor, Tzu Chi University English Education Center (Spring 2020)

Publications

Books

1.     Editor. Re-inventing Confucianism: The New Confucian Movement. Umberto Bresciani, author. Variétés Sinologiques, No. 90. Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei Ricci Institute, 2001. Reviewed by Jennifer Oldstone Moore, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 62.2, May 2003, pp. 574-576.

2.     Co-editor with Benoît Vermander. Creeds, Rites, Videotapes: Narrating Religious Experience in East Asia. Variétés Sinologiques, No. 93. Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei Ricci Institute, 2004.

3.     Co-editor with Thích Đồng Ấn. Trần Nhân Tông: A Biographical Study. Lê Mạnh Thát, author, trans. by Đạo Sinh. Tổng Hợp, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, July 2006.

4.     Taiwan’s Buddhist Nuns. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2010. Reviewed by: Mavis L. Fenn in Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Vol. 18, 2011, pp. 177-182; Charles B. Jones, Journal of Global Buddhism, Vol. 12, 2011, pp. 33-35; Donald Pittman in Religious Studies Review, Vol. 39.1, March 2013, pp. 1-12; a Choice (ACRL) selection in Women’s Studies March 2010; a Chronicle of Higher Education “New Scholarly Books” selection, Aug. 9, 2010. A list of other reviews is available upon request

5.     Women, Buddhism, and Modernity in China, 1900-1950. University of Oxford: Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs. Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing, Ltd. Under contract.

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

1.     Chapter, “The Survival of the Shandong Base Area, 1937-1943: External Influences and Internal Conflicts.” North China at War: The Social Ecology of Revolution, 1937-45, edited by Feng Chongyi and David S.G. Goodman. London: Rowman and Littlefield Press, June 2000, pp. 173-188. A list of reviews is available upon request.

2.     Chapter, “Xiwang gongcheng: fojiao ciji jijinhui 9.21 zaiqu xuexiao chongjian gongzuo” [Project Hope: Ciji’s post-9.21 earthquake school reconstruction plan. Zainan yu chongjian: 9.21 zhenzai yu shehui wenhua chongjian lunwenji [Disaster and recovery: the social and cultural reconstruction after the 9.21 earthquake]. Nangang, Taiwan: Institute of Taiwan History Preparation Office, Academia Sinica, 2004, pp. 439-460.

3.     Chapters, “An Audience with Ven. Master Zhengyan” and “The New Funeral Culture in Taiwan.” Creeds, Rites, and Videotapes: Narrating Religious Experience in East Asia, edited by Elise A. DeVido and Benoît Vermander. Variétés Sinologiques, No. 93. Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei Ricci Institute, 2004, pp. 75-103 and pp. 235-249.

4.     Chapter, “The Infinite Worlds of Taiwan’s Buddhist Nuns.” Buddhist Women and Social Justice, edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004, pp. 219-231. A list of reviews is available upon request.

5.     Chapter, “Buddhism for this World: The Buddhist Revival in Vietnam, 1920-51 and its Legacy.” Modernity and Re-enchantment in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam, edited by Philip Taylor. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2007 and Lantham, MD: Lexington Books 2008, pp. 250-296. Reviewed by Janet Hoskins, Pacific Affairs, Spring 2008, Vol. 81.1, pp. 144-146; Karen Fjelstad, Asian Ethnology, Vol. 67.2 2008, pp. 349-354. A list of other reviews is available upon request.

6.     Chapter, “Taiwan de xingbie benzhi zhuyi yu dangdi fojiao de fazhan” [Taiwan’s gender essentialism and the development of Taiwan’s Buddhism]. Zongjiao wenhua yu xingbie lunli [Religious culture and gender ethics]. Taipei: Fajie Press, Dec. 2008, pp. 313-352.

7.     Article, “The Influence of Chinese Master Taixu on Buddhism in Vietnam.” Journal of Global Buddhism, Vol. 10, 2009, pp. 413-457.

8.     “Taeman Pulgyo ŭi yŏsŏng hwaltong” [The Infinite Worlds of Taiwan’s Buddhist Nuns], trans. by Yi Sangyŏp. Taeman pulgyo ŭi 5 kaji songgong kodŭ [Five reasons for the success of Taiwanese Buddhism]. Seoul, Korea: Pulgwang Publishers, 2012, pp. 334-351.

9.     Invited Entry, “Buddhism in Vietnam.” Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford University Press, 2012.

10.  “Invited Selection, “Tri Hai: Why We Must Revive Buddhism.” Sources of Vietnamese Tradition, edited by George E. Dutton, Jayne S. Werner, and John K. Whitmore. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, pp. 434-438.

11.  Invited Entry, “Thích Nhất Hạnh.” Religious Leadership: A Reference Handbook, edited by S.H. Callahan, Vol. 2, 613-618. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013.

12.  Invited Entry, “Thích Nhất Hạnh.” Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford University Press, Fall 2014.

13.  “Eminent Nuns in Huế, Vietnam.” Eminent Buddhist Women, edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2014, pp. 71-81.

14.  “Networks and Bridges: Nuns in the Making of Modern Chinese Buddhism.” Chinese Historical Review, Special Issue on “Women and Buddhism in Chinese History, “ Vol. 22.1, May 2015, pp. 72-93.

15.  “Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Propagation of Mindfulness in the West.” Meditation and Buddhist-Christian Encounter: A Critical Analysis, edited by Elizabeth Harris and John O’Grady. EOS-Editions of Sankt Ottilien, 2019, pp. 217-252.

Book reviews

1.     Manuscript Reviewer for Journal of Asian Studies; Journal of Global Buddhism; Journal of Vietnamese Studies; International Journal of Dharma Studies; Review of Religion and Chinese Society, etc.

2.     Review of Buddhist Nuns in Taiwan and Sri Lanka: A Critique of the Feminist Perspective, by Wei-yi Cheng. Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 34.4, Dec. 2007, pp. 606-611.

3.     Review of Arbitration in China: A Legal and Cultural Analysis, by Fan Kun. 29 OHIO ST. J. ON DISP. RESOL. 690 (2014).

4.     Review of Cold War Monks: Buddhism and America’s Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia, by Eugene Ford. Journal of Global Buddhism. Vol. 20, 2019, pp. 127-131.

Academic Awards

1.     Anna MacIntyre Litchfield Prize for History, Cornell University, 1984

2.     U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, National Taiwan University, Summer 1986

3.     Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Taiwan, 1990-1991.

4.     Pacific-Cultural Foundation Research Travel Grant, Taipei, Taiwan, 1991-1992.

5.     National Endowment for the Humanities Conference Travel Grant, Colorado College, June 1993.

6.     Research Grant, Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of Missiology Missio, c.V., Aachen, Germany, 1999-2001.

7.     Research Grant, Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library Taiwan, 2002 (declined).

8.     National Taiwan Normal University Travel Grant, March 2005.

9.     National Science Council Taiwan, Two-Year Research Grant, 2005-2007. #94-2411-H-003-018 and #95-2411-H-003-006, “Taixu and Vietnamese Buddhism, 1920-1945.”

10.  National Taiwan Normal University Travel Grant, Summer 2006.

11.  National Science Council Taiwan, Two-Year Research Grant, 2007-2009. #96-2411-H-003-008-MY2, “Thích Quảng Đức and Modern Vietnamese Buddhism: A New Study.”

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12.  St. Bonaventure University Travel Grant, Winter 2009-2010.

13.  St. Bonaventure University Travel Grant, Summer 2010.

14.  St. Bonaventure University Travel Grant, Summer 2011.

15.  St. Bonaventure University Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Award, one of two awarded annually, 2011.

16.  Sheng Yen Foundation Visiting Fellowship in Chinese Buddhism, Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Fall 2018.

Leadership

Co-President, Sakyadhita USA, 2017- 2020

Co-founder; Vice-President of Sakyadhita USA National Branch, 2010-August 2017

Lifetime Member of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women

CEO of Benevolent Organisation of Development, Health, and Insight (US)