Faculty
Lionel Jensen
Associate Professor
Concurrent Associate Professor of History
BA with honors in History, Williams College; MA in Asian Studies, Washington University; PhD with distinction in History, University of California, Berkeley.
Lionel Jensen is author of Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization (1997), 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 three other works, the most recent being China Beyond the Headlines (2000), now in its second printing and China Off Center: Readings on the Margin of the Middle Kingdom, which will appear in summer 2002. 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 "When Words Move Stones: Archive, Memory, and the Chinese Past" which examines the figurative and usable properties of "antiquity" as found in certain ancient and medieval texts. A third manuscript, "Universal Love, Western Science, and the New Chinese Century," explores the ecumenical convergence of natural science, native religious traditions, and nationalism in the work of the political reformer, Tan Sitong (1866-1898). Jensen was named one of the 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the Twentieth Century and included in Whose Who Among Americas Teachers.
