Lionel M. Jensen

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages
Concurrent Associate Professor of History
(PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1992)
205 O'Shaughnessy
574-631-8874
email: ljensen@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~eall/bios/jensen.html

Geographic focus: China

Thematic interests: Chinese religion and thought; folklore; early Sino-western contact; Chinese nationalism.

Current research: Examination of the figurative and usable properties of "antiquity" as found in certain ancient and medieval texts; exploration of the ecumenical convergence of natural science, native religious traditions, and nationalism in the work of the political reformer, Tan Sitong (1866–1898).

Selected publications: Editor (with Timothy B. Weston) China's Transformations: The Stories beyond the Headlines (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006); Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization (1997), recognized in 1998 as the Best First Book in the History of Religions by the American Academy of Religion. Editor, China beyond the Headlines (2000).