TALK: Chinese Religiosities: Vicissitudes Of Modernity
And State Formation
Mayfair Yang (UCSB)
Monday, October 23 / 12:00 PM
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies,
2252 HSSB
Professor Yang will present the introduction
to her edited book on religion, modernity, and the state
in China and Taiwan. She will situate the history of
state secularization in twentieth-century China within
a transnational comparative context and examine the social
effects of the Western categories of “religion” and “superstition” in
China. Mayfair Yang is a professor in the Department
of Religious Studies and the Department of East Asian
Languages and Cultural Studies.
Sponsored by the IHC’s
East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group
