Lionel Jensen

Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Department of History

Degrees

B.A., Williams College; M.A., Washington University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Research Profile

Jensen is the author of Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization, recognized in 1998 as the Best First Book in the History of Religions by the American Academy of Religion. He has edited or co-edited four other works, China's Transformations: the Stories beyond the Headlines (2007), China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom (2002), China Beyond the Headlines (2000), and Early China (1997). His research interests are in the areas of Chinese religion and thought, folklore, early Sino-western contact, and nationalism. He is currently working on a manuscript titled Fictions and Fractures of Time and Place: Excursions in Chinese Intellectual History, which uses montage to explore the figurative and usable properties of "antiquity." A prospective work, Universal Love, Western Science, and the New Chinese Century, considers the ecumenical convergence of natural science, religious traditions, and nationalism in the work of the visionary political reformer, Tan Sitong.

Contact Information

266 Decio Faculty Hall
631-7699
ljensen@nd.edu
http://eastasian.nd.edu/directory/lionel-jensen/