KEPING WU

Ph.D. Anthropology, Boston University

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, C.U.H.K.


Field work in Yunnan

Courses Offered

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ANTH 2320 Culture and Behavior

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ANTH 3310/5350 Religion, Culture and Society

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ANTH 5010 Seminar on Anthropological Theory

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ANTH 2310/5670/UGEC2653 Gender and Culture

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ANTH 2520/5520 Globalization and Culture

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ANTH 5380 Seminar on General Anthropology

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ANTH 4330 Medicine, Health and Culture

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Research Interests

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Religions and Rituals in China and North America (Charisma and religious Leadership, Ritual and Performance, Psychological Anthropology and Religious Experience, Buddhist Revival in China, Christianity and Ethnicity)

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Voluntarism and Civic Engagement in China

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Gender and Family in China

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Research Projects

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Gospel in the Valley: Christianity among the Lisu of Yunnan

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Engaged Religions in Southeastern China

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Channeling Charisma: Catholic Charismatics in the United States

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Publications

Forthcoming ¡§Master from Afar: Media and Globalization in Contemporary Chinese Buddhism.¡¨ In Pacific World.
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Forthcoming Lalibertˆm, Andrˆm and Keping Wu. ¡§Social Services, Philanthropy and Religion in Chinese Society.¡¨ In David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive and Philip Wickeri, eds., Chinese Religions: Communities, Practices and Contemporary Issues. Boston: Brill.
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2009 ¡§Resistance¡¨ ªº²z¸Ñ»P½Ķ (Understanding and Translating Resistance). ¦è¥_¥Á±Ú¬ã¨s (Northwest Ethno-National Studies).
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2009 Book review. C. Julia Huang. Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement. Asian Anthropology. Vol. 8, pp. 161-163.
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2005 Performing Charisma: Construction of Religious Experience in the Catholic Charismatic Ritual of Prayer and Worship. In Inquiries into Past and Present, ed. D. Gard, I. Main, M. Oliver and J. Wood, Vienna: IWM Junior Visiting Fellows' Conferences, Vol. 17.
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2004 Book Review, To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China by Michael Puett (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series). In China Scholarship (Zhongguo Xueshu). Vol. 5 No. 1.
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Selected Presentations

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¡§Pilgrims/Tourists: Women¡¦s Sacred Journeys in Contemporary China¡¨ presented at the Society for East Asian Anthropology Conference in Taipei, July 2-5, 2009.

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¡§Flying Phoenix in the Foreign Land - The Study of a Transnational Yiguan Dao Community in Boston,¡¨ presented at the 16th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) congress, Kunming, Yunnan, July 27-31, 2009.

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¡§Women and the Revival of Buddhism in Contemporary China,¡¨ presented at the 16th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) congress, Kunming, Yunnan, July 27-31, 2009.

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¡§Converting to Buddhism: Lay People¡¦s Religious Participation in Southern Jiangsu,¡¨ to be presented at the Annual conference of AAS, Chicago, March 26-29, 2009.

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¡§In Search of Pure Land: Globalization and Buddhist Revival in Contemporary China,¡¨ presented at the invited conference on ¡§Religion and Globalization in Asia: Prospects, Patterns and Problems for the 21st Century,¡¨ sponsored by the Center for the Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco, March 13-14, 2009.

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 ¡§Lay Buddhist Women and the Changing Family Structure in Contemporary China,¡¨ paper presented at the International Conference on Gender and Family in East Asia, Hong Kong, December 12-13, 2008.

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¡§Spirits of Entrepreneurship: Shamanism and Capitalism in Modern China,¡¨ paper presented in the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (AAA), San Francisco, CA, Nov 19-23, 2008.

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¡§Serving Others, Saving Selves: Philanthropic Acts and Religious Revival in Eastern China¡¨: Conference on Engaged Religions and the Public Good in Chinese Societies, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, on June 1-2, 2008.

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¡§Religious Revival and the Civic Engagements in China¡¨: Hong Kong Anthropological Society, Hong Kong Historical Museum, on November 29, 2007.

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¡§Engaged Religions and the Public Good in Contemporary China¡¨: Friday Seminar Series, the Department of Anthropology, CUHK, on November 9, 2007.

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¡§Religious mobilization and Social Change in Southeast China: a case of a Pure Land Buddhist temple¡¨: 16th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, New York, February 6, 2007.

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 ¡§Transformation of Religiosity in Contemporary United States¡¨: 8th Annual Conference of Chinese Scholars of Christianity, San Jose, California, June 19, 2005