This event is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global.
Abstract
This presentation will propose a chronology of modern Chinese society, 1520-1920, from a perspective of religious history (in the largest sense of the term), thus different from but complementary to more traditional political history. It will do so by identifying thirty key dates of events and changes that shaped the evolution of the Chinese world, and briefly introducing the significance of each. This aims to foster discussions of how we think about historical change and periodization in Chinese studies.
Bio
Vincent Goossaert (PhD, EPHE, Paris, 1997) is Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions at EPHE, PSL. He is co-editor of T’oung Pao, a leading journal in sinology established in 1890. His research deals with the social history of Chinese religion in late imperial and modern times, especially Daoism, religious professions, socio-religious regulations, productions of moral norms, and human-divine sociability. He has published about twenty books, including The Beef Taboo in China : Agriculture, Ethics, and Sacrifice, transl. Barbara Ambros (University of Hawai’i Press, 2025), Making the Gods Speak. The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese History (Harvard University Asia Center, 2022), and Heavenly Masters. Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State (University of Hawai’i Press & Chinese University Press, 2021).
高萬桑（Vincent Goossaert），1969年生于法國。1997年，在法國高等研究實踐學院（EPHE）獲得宗教學博士學位，論文題為《近代道教的建立—全真道》；次年成為法國國家科研中心專職研究員; 2012年，升EPHE宗教學系道教史教授。2017年當《通報》編輯.