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early China, Confucianism, Taoism, Daoism, Comparative Religion

Chinese art and architecture

Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization

East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion

Chinese history (Tang, Song, Liao dynasties), global middle ages, sino-steppe relations, aristocracies, meritocracy, elites, political culture, death ritual, premodern cities, premodern empires, imperialism, ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, social networks, frontiers, boundaries and borderlands, digital methodologies

history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, maritime Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Rim societies

German literature and thought, European literature and thought, Chinese intellectual history, Comparative study of Europe and China, political and legal humanities, International Political Thought

religion, ritual, Tibet, Buddhism, Tantra, Dunhuang