Huaiyu Chen

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES

1. In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions. Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022). forthcoming.

2. Co-ed. with Edward Q. Wang, Chinese Studies in History, 53: 3 Special Issue on Dunhuang Studies, 2020.

3. Co-ed. with Rong Xinjiang, Great Journeys across Pamir. Festschrift in Honor of Professor Zhang Guangda for his Eighty-fifth Birthday. Inner Asian Library series (Leiden: Brill, 2018).

4. The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China. American University Studies. (New York: Peter Lang, 2007).

In Progress:

1.     Buddhism, Christianity, and Daoism along the Silk Road.

2.     The Everlasting Torch of Wisdom: Performing Stone Lanterns in Medieval Chinese Buddhism.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. “The Changing Images of Zodiac Animals in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature.” Nesir Journal of Literary Studies vol. 1 (2021), pp. 37-54.
2. “From Orientalism to Cultural Nationalism: Decentralizing European Buddhology in Early Twentieth-century China.” History of Humanities 6: 2 (2021), pp. 549-569.
3. “Orientalisms in China.” Special Issue “What’s in a Name.” Journal Of the Society for Asian Humanities 52 (2020-2021), pp. 141-146.
4. “The Other as the Transformed Alliance: Living with the Tiger in Medieval Chinese Daoism.” Polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren 45 (2021), pp. 5-22.  
5. “From Germanist to Sinologist: The Transnational Journey of an American Progressive in Early 20th-Century China.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 48: 2 (2021), pp. 125-148.
6. Co-authored with Min Xiangpeng. “Animals, Divination, and Climate: An Environmental Note on the Cult of the Pig in Ancient China.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 28 (2021), firstview article.
7. “The Rise of the ‘Asian History’ in Mainland China in the 1950s: A Global Perspective.” Global Intellectual History 6: 4 (2021), Firstview article.
8. “The Cult of Cintamani: On the Nature of the Dunhuang Manuscript P. 4518 (10) and its Context.” Chinese Studies in History 53: 3 (2020), pp. 227-241.
9. “A Study on a Stone Lantern from Dongzhang Village in Medieval China.” Studies in Chinese Religions 5: 2 (2019), pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/23729988.2019.1676085.
10. “The Road to Redemption: Killing Snakes in Medieval Chinese Buddhism.” Religions 2019, 10(4), special issue: Buddhist Beasts in Asia, 247; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10040247.
11. “Transforming Beasts and Engaging with Local Communities: Tiger Violence in Medieval Chinese Buddhism.” Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies. Vol. 3, No. 1, Special Issue “Animals without Border,” (2018), pp. 31-60.
12.  “The Benji jing and the Anle jing: Reflections on Two Daoist and Christian Manuscripts from Turfan and Dunhuang.” Studies in Chinese Religions vol. 1, no. 3 (Routledge, 2015), pp. 209-228.
13. Co-authored with Liu Zhen. “Some Reflections on an Early Mahāyāna Text Hastikakṣyasūtra.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies vol. 77, No. 2, (Cambridge, England, 2014), pp. 293-312.
14. “The Rise and Fall of the Scriptural Platform in Medieval Chinese Buddhism.” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief vol. 9, no. 2 (Routledge, 2013), pp. 140-165.
15. “Newly Identified Khotanese Fragments in the British Library and their Chinese Parallels.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society vol. 22, no. 2 (Cambridge, England, 2012), pp. 265-279.
16. “A Brief Note on the Khotanese Fragment SI M 38 in the St. Petersburg Collection.” Manuscripta Orientalia: International Journal of Oriental Manuscript Research vol. 16, no. 1 (St. Petersburg, Russia, 2010), pp. 65-67.
17. “Chinese Language Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Turfan in the Princeton University East Asian Library.” East Asian Library Journal vol. 14, no. 2 (Princeton, NJ, 2010), pp. 1-208, with 68 illustrations.
18. “A Buddhist Classification of Plants and Animals in Early Tang China.” Journal of Asian History vol. 43, no. 1 (Wiesbaden, Germany, 2009), pp. 31-51. 

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. “Zoomancy/divination by animals.” Handbook of Chinese Divination Techniques, compiled by International Consortium for Research in Humanities (IKGF) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, edited by Stephan N. Kory (Leiden: Brill, 2022).
2. “Plant Science and Technology in East Asia.” In: Annette Giesecke ed., A Cultural History of Plants in the Medieval Age (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), forthcoming.
3. “Shared Issues in a Shared Textual Community: Buddhism, Christianity and Daoism in Medieval China.” In: Samuel N. Lieu and Glen Thompson eds., The Church of the East in Central Asia and China (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2020), pp. 93-109.
4. Co-authored with Zhang Xing. “From Lion to Tiger: The Buddhist Changing Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts.” In: Rotem Rosen, Michal Biran, Meir shahar, and Gideon Shelach eds., Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical and Ethical Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 331-353.
5. “Honoring the Dead: The Buddhist Reinvention of Funeral Literature, Ritual, and Material Culture in Early Medieval China.” In: Mu-chou Poo and H. A. Drake eds., Old Society, New Belief: Religious Transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 91-105.
6. “Notes on the Medieval Buddhist Stone Sūtras from Qionglai, Sichuan.” In: Ikeda Takumi池田巧 ed., The East Asian Studies: Collection of Articles in Honor of Professor Tokio Takata’s Retirement (Tohogaku Kenkyū ronshū: Takata Tokio kyōju Taishoku kinen ronshū), (Kyoto: Rinsen Shoten, 2014), pp. 13-28 (L).
7.  “East Asian Transformation of Monasticism.” In: Mario Poceski ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), pp. 299-318.
8. “Society and Religious Patronage along the Silk Road: The Inscriptional Evidence from Turfan.” In: Wendy Swartz, Robert F. Campany, Yang Lu, and Jessey Choo eds., Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), pp. 176--193.
9. “Multiple Traditions in One Ritual: A Reading of the Buddhist Liturgical Texts for Lantern Ritual in Dunhuang Manuscripts.” In: Tansen Sen ed., Buddhism across Asia: Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange (Singapore: Institute for South East Asian Studies and New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2014), pp. 233-257.
10. “Sharing the Karma: Some Reflections on the Dialogue between Catholicism and Buddhism.” In: James L. Heft ed., Catholicism and Interreligious Dialogue (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 153-159.
11. “The Encounter of Nestorian Christianity with Tantric Buddhism in Medieval China.” In: Dietmar Winkler and Tang Li eds., Hidden Treasures and Intercultural Encounters: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia (Berlin and Münster: LIT Verlag, 2009), pp. 195-213.
12. “The Connection between Nestorian and Buddhist Texts in Late Tang China.” In: Roman Malek ed., The Church of the East in China and Central Asia (Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2006), pp. 93-113.