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
http://eastasian.nd.edu/directory/lionel-jensen/
Geographic focus: China
Thematic interests: Official and unofficial Chinese religion; folklore and popular culture; new media and contemporary urban culture; US-China relations; Chinese nationalism.
Current research: “Fictions and Fractures of Time and Place,” a critical investigation into the mythic qualities of historical “fact” in China; “Webs of Rope,” examining the limits of political freedom in the explosive generation of cyber communities; a manuscript-length 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, 2007); editor (with Susan D. Blum), China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom (University of Hawai'I Press, 2002); Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization (Duke University Press, 1997), recognized in 1998 as the Best First Book in the History of Religions by the American Academy of Religion.
