EDITORS
JAN KIELY is professor of Chinese studies and associate director of the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901–1956 (2014) and coeditor, with Vincent Goossaert and John Lagerwey, of Modern Chinese Religion, 1850–2015 (2015).
J. BROOKS JESSUP is a postdoctoral fellow in Chinese studies at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Free University of Berlin. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of the forthcoming Shanghai Dharma: Buddhism and Urban Life in Modern China.
OTHER CONTRIBUTORS
BENJAMIN BROSE is an assistant professor of Chinese Buddhism at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A specialist in the history and culture of medieval Chinese Buddhism, he received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and is the author of Patrons and Patriarchs: Chan Monks and Regional Rulers During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (2015).
NEKY TAK-CHING CHEUNG is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Macau and an honorary research associate at the Centre for Studies of Daoist Culture, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Women’s Ritual in China: Jiezhu (Receiving Buddhist Prayer Beads) Performed by Menopausal Women in Ninghua, Western Fujian (2008).
GARETH FISHER is an associate professor of religion and anthropology at Syracuse University. He received his Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Virginia and is the author of From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China (2014).
ERIK J. HAMMERSTROM is an assistant professor of religion at Pacific Lutheran University. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University and is a specialist on the intellectual and institutional history of Chinese Buddhism in the modern era. He is the author of The Science of Chinese Buddhism: Early Twentieth-Century Engagements (2015).
GREGORY ADAM SCOTT is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research focuses on print and material culture among Buddhists in the Republican period.
XUE YU is a research assistant professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies and director of the Centre for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is editor in chief of the International Journal for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism and the author of Buddhism, War, and Nationalism: Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggressions, 1931–1945 (2005), as well as, in Chinese, several books on Chinese Buddhism.