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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2015/10/08/religion-and-gender-in-china-symposium/" target="_blank">Religion and Gender in China symposium</a></h3>
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<p><em>Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies presents:</em><br />
<strong>Religion and Gender in 20th Century China: An International Symposium</strong></p>
<p>Organized by Kang Xiaofei, George Washington University<br />
Elena Valussi, Loyola University, Chicago<br />
Xun Liu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick</p>
<p>Dates: Fri and Sat, Oct 9-10, 2015<br />
Venue: 301 Van Dyck Hall, College Ave Campus, Rutgers University</p>
<p><strong>Conference schedule:</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Friday 10/9, 2015: </span></strong></p>
<p><strong>9:30-11:30 AM: Panel 1: Women, Gender and Religious Practices in Republican Era</strong></p>
<p>Beata Grant, East Asian Studies, Washington University</p>
<p>“<em>The Many Lives of Zhang Shenghui (1900-1967): Poet, Reformer, Educator, Laywoman and Nun</em>”</p>
<p>Xun Liu, History, Rutgers University</p>
<p><em> Women and Their Daoist Inner Alchemy Practice as Seen in Two Early 20th Century Journals</em></p>
<p>Elena Valussi, History, Loyola University, Chicago</p>
<p><em>Gender, Religion, and Nationalism in Chen Yingning’s work on Female Alchemy</em></p>
<p>Discussant: Kang Xiaofei</p>
<p><strong>11:30AM-1:00 PM: Lunch Break</strong></p>
<p><strong>1:15-2:45 PM: Panel 2: Gender, Nationalism, Anti-superstition Campaigns in 20<sup>TH</sup> Century China</strong></p>
<p>Xia Shi, History, New College of Florida/UCI</p>
<p><em>Women, Superstition, and the Reorientation towards Charity—The Case of Daoyuan</em></p>
<p>Xiaofei Kang, Religious Studies, George Washington University</p>
<p><em>Quelling the "Red-Shoed Female Demon:" Gender and Anti-Superstition in Communist Propaganda, 1944-45</em>"</p>
<p>Discussant: Beata Grant</p>
<p><strong>2:45-3:00 PM: Tea Break</strong></p>
<p><strong>3:00-5:00 PM: Panel 3: Women’s Practices among Ethnic Minorities in Post-1949 China/Taiwan</strong></p>
<p>Neky Cheung, History Department, University of Macau.</p>
<p>“<em>Lay Buddhist Women’s Jiezhu Practice in the Post-1949 South China</em>”</p>
<p>Huang Pingying, Assistant Research Fellow, Center for Hakka Studies, National Central University, Taiwan</p>
<p><em>“The Religious Life of Contemporary Female Disciples of the Phoenix in Puli, Taiwan</em>”</p>
<p>Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee</p>
<p><em> “Gendering </em>Minzu<em> and </em>Zongjiao<em>: The Goddess Baijie in 1930s-1950s Yunnan</em></p>
<p>Discussant: Mayfair Yang</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Saturday 10/10, 2015: </span></strong></p>
<p><strong>9:00-10:45 AM: Panel 4: Gender and Women’s Agency in Contemporary Chinese Religion</strong></p>
<p>Adeline Herrou, Centre nationale de la recherché scientifique, Paris.</p>
<p>“<em>The Greatest Daoist Nun under Heaven: Gender Issues and Quanzhen Monasticism in Contemporary China</em>”</p>
<p>Mayfair Yang, Religious Studies/Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>“<em>Of Mothers and Goddesses: Religiosity and Women's Agency in Wenzhou</em></p>
<p>Discussant: Elena Valussi</p>
<p><strong>10:45-11:00AM: Tea Break</strong></p>
<p><strong>11:00-Noon: Roundtable Discussion:</strong></p>
<p>Common issues and publication plans</p>
<p><strong>Noon: Lunch and farewell</strong></p>
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