ABSTRACTThis book examines China–Indonesia relations in 2025, marking 75 years of diplomatic ties amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty. Cooperation across trade, investment, infrastructure, technology—including artificial intelligence (AI)—and defense expanded, even as Indonesia faced challenges in governance and strategic positioning. Indonesia joining BRICS and US tariffs set the tone for the year, shaping expectations around Global South […]
ABSTRACTThis lecture explores Buddhist manuscript cultures in mainland Southeast Asia through the case of the old royal Lao capital of Luang Prabang, drawing on more than fifteen years of research conducted in collaboration with the Buddhist Archives of Luang Prabang. While over ninety percent of surviving Lao manuscripts are written on palm leaves using the […]
ABSTRACTDaoism is the indigenous organized religion of China, with a two-thousand-year history, an enormous canon of sacred texts, and a complicated liturgy. However, until fairly recently, Daoism was best known in the West, if at all, as a quaint and exotic philosophy of quietism and mysticism. This was how Daoism was depicted in most readily […]
Capitalism is a remarkable system which has re-invented itself throughout history. It has proved capable of co-existing with entirely different political and economic contexts.
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It has been reported that Chinese societies (including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore) have high levels of religious diversity. It is imperative to locate Christianity in this diverse religious context in order to reexamine the role of Christianity in Chinese societies.
This presentation explores perceptions of China and the “One Belt One Road” initiative in the public discourse of Kazakhstan. In recent years, China,
Over the past decade, China has been establishing access to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through infrastructure projects and trade development.
This seminar is based on my ongoing work on Chinese gods and processes of subjectification whereby such gods affirm unique personas and engage humans in person-to-person interactions ...
This lecture on proselytizing to/from Southeast Asia is a critical reflection on a major shift in the ...
This paper is concerned with the significance of rituals in transnational extractive operations ...
China’s deepening ties with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the last decade ...
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ten years since it began, has become China’s guiding foreign engagement and economic governance principle in the Xi Jinping era ...
An exploration of ritual practices in Chinese history and anthropology, as well as indigenous ritual theory concerning these practices ...
This presentation explores China's engagement with Muslim-majority nations, with a specific focus on Indonesia ...
The crisis of civilization has now become an urgent and severe reality ...
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is an important pilot project of China’s Belt & Road Initiative. Within CPEC ...
The Wondrous Scripture of Original Deeds from the Cavern of Darkness (Dongxuan benxing miaojing 洞玄本行妙經) ...
In Singkawang, West Kalimantan the local Chinese Indonesian community is currently engaged in a major Chinese Religious revival in which inter-ethnic spirit-medium practices figure strongly ...
Dams suggest progress — they are a way of arresting the flow of water (and that which it contains) to convert its potential energy into something useable ...
Buddhism is regarded as a traditional faith in Russia and is part of the national spiritual tradition. Buddhism is a traditional religion for three regions of Russia: ...
“Pathways” (Dao道) in classical Daoist discourses, not really “ready-made,” tend to make themselves anew quite readily ...
