YANG Der-Ruey

Institution: Institute of Social/Cultural Anthropology

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Brief Self Introduction:
    I am a social anthropologist. The main subject of my research is the transmission of traditional knowledge/skill, especially those relating to Taoism and folk religions, among Han Chinese people in Mainland China. I always try to analyze relevant phenomenon happening in China by setting them in a cross-cultural comparative framework. However, mainly due to the limits of my language capability, the geopgraphical areas from where I can draw some really meaningful resources for my comparative study on Mainland Chinese culture have not yet gone beyond Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Asia and Southeast Asian countries. By joining GCOE, I sincerely hope that I can broaden up my horizon through increasing dialogue with scholars from East Asian countries.

Main Publications (selected):
1. Yang, Der-Ruey, 2005, "The Changing Economy of Temple Daoism in Shanghai," in Yang Fenggang & Joe Tamney (eds.) The State, the Market, and Religions in Contemporary China, Leiden: Brill, pp. 113-148.
2. Yang, Der-Ruey, 2009, “Trouble, Kongfu, and Competition: The theoretical implications of the sphere of “superstition” of the S Village in Wuji County, Hebei,” Symposia of Social Theory, No. 5.
3. Yang, Der-Ruey, 2010, ‘From Crafts to Discursive Knowledge: How Modern Schooling Changes the Learning/Knowledge Style of Daoist Priests in Contemporary China,’ in Chao, Y. Adam (ed.) Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation, Chapter 4, UK: Routledge.
4. Yang, Der-Ruey, 2010, "Being home" and "returning home": The quest for existential meaning of two folk religions in southern Hebei today, Hong Kong: Contemporary China Research Centre, Shue Yan University
5. Yang, Der-Ruey, 2011 (forthcoming), ‘Revolution of Temporality: The Modern Schooling for Daoist Priests in Contemporary Shanghai,’ in Liu, Xun & David Palmer (eds.) Between Eternity and Modernity: Daoism and its Reinventions in the 20th Century, Berkeley: University of California Press

Introduction of Overseas Partners' Institution:
    The institute of Social/Cultural Anthroplogy in Nanjing University was found in 2005. Currently, our faculty consists of five PhDs in anthropology and one PhD in Folklore. Besides, we have one post-doc fellow, several PhDstudents, and some MA students. The academic interests of our faculty members includes the anthropology of ethnicity, economy, medicine, religion, cognition and culture trasnmission. All the faculty members do their fieldwork mainly in Mainland China, although most of them do have some research experiences in the US, UK, Korea, Taiwan, India, and so on. Due to the limits of language capability, the courses or guidance we could offer foreign students can only be delivered in mandarin Chinese and English. Our institute has no independent website. However, interested readers can find relevant information about our institute from the website of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, whose address is http://sociology.nju.edu.cn/

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