John Lagerwey, “Introduction,”China: A Religious State (2010), 1-18.
Paul R. Katz and Vincent Goossaert, “Introduction,” The Fifty Years that Changed Chinese Religion, 1898-1948(2021) 中譯本：《改變中國宗教的五十年》(1898-1948)
*Paul R. Katz, “Introduction,” Religion in China and Its Modern Fate (2014), 1-16.
9/18 Week 2 Religion Question
Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer, The Religious Question in Modern China (2011), 1-198.
9/25 Week 3 Shadow of Imperialism
Ryan Dunch, “Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Theory, Christian Missions, and Global Modernity,” History and Theory 41 (2002), 301-325.
Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Christianizing South China: Mission, Development, and Identity in Modern Chaoshan(2018), Chapters.1-2, 1-36.
10/2 Week 4 Encounter with Science
David A. Palmer and Xun Liu eds., “Introduction: The Daoist Encounter with Modernity,” Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity (2012), 1-19.
Xun Liu, Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and The Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai (2009), “Introduction,” and “Chapter 3 Innovating Immortals’ Body: Nationalism, Antiquity, and Science,” 1-20 and 77-121.
10/9 Week 5 State-Making
Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup eds., “Introduction,” Recovering Buddhism in Modern China (2016), 1-33.
Gray Tuttle, Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China (2007), “Introduction,” and Chapters 3-4, 1-14, 68-127.
Philippe Major, “Introduction” and “Chapter 1 Reviving the Spirit of Confucius,” Confucian Iconoclasm: Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism, and the Politics of Antitradition in Republican China (2023), 1-58.
*Albert Wu, “Falling in Love with Confucius,” From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization (2016), 161-189
10/23 Week 7 Nationalists
Rebecca Nedostup, Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity (2010), “Introduction” and “Part III,” 1-24, 191-292.
Michael Walsh, “Chapter 3 Religion,” Stating the Sacred: Religion, China and the Formation of the Nation-State (2020), 61-86.
10/30 Week 8 Religious Property and Education
Hongyan Xiang, “From a Diplomatic to a Domestic Issue: China’s Struggle with Church Properties in the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937),” Twentieth-Century China 45:1 (2020), pp. 66-84.
邵佳德，《近代佛教改革的地方性實踐：以民國南京為中心》 (1912-1949) (2017)
11/6 Week 9 Wartime Choices
Kelly A. Hammond, China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II (2020), “Introduction” and “Chapter 4 Deploying Islam: Sino-Muslims and Japan’s Aspirational Empire,” 1-30, 145-182.
Denise Y. Ho, “Ch.3 Curating Belief: Superstition versus Science for Young Pioneers,” Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China (2017), 160-206.
12/11 Week 14 The Return of Religion
Eriberto P. Lozada, JR., God Aboveground: Catholic Church, Postsociailst State, and Transnational Processes in a Chinese Village (2002)
David A. Palmer, “Introduction,” and “Ch.9 Fualungong Challenges the CCP,” Qiqong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China (2007), 1-28 and 241-277.
* Ian Johnson, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao (2017) 中譯本：《中國的靈魂：後毛澤東時代的宗教復興》
12/18 Week 15 Protests
《華人宗教與中國國族主義》(2021)
Kwok Pui-lan Candler School of Theology eds, The Hong Kong Protests and Political Theology (2021)
12/25 Week 16 Paper Preparation
1/1 Week 17 Paper Preparation
1/10 Week 18 Paper Due
* The assigned readings are subject to change based on the needs of the class.