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French historian specializing in Chinese religions, director of studies at the EPHE, author of Le Taoïsme. La révélation continue (with Caroline Gyss), Gallimard, 2010; La Question religieuse en Chine (with David A. Palmer), CNRS Éditions, 2012.
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Rawski, Evelyn S. The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998, xii+481 p. (bibliography, maps, tables, illustrations, glossary, index)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2000/4 No 112)
MacRae, John R. Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism
Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003, xx+204 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2005/2 No 130)
DeBernadi, Jean. The Way that Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit-Mediums in Penang, Malaysia
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2006, xviii+372 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2008/4 No 144)
Bureaucracy, Taxation, and Justice
Taoism and State Building in Jiangnan, China (17th–19th Centuries)
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2010/4 65th Year)
Yao, Xinzhong (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Confucianism
London, Routledge Curzon, 2003, 2 Volumes, xx+932 p. (bibliography, index)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2003/4 No 124)
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Ying-shih Yü, The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China
New York, Columbia University Press, 2022
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2022/4 No 200)
Historians and anthropologists rethink religious diversity in China
In Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident (2022/1 No 45)
Yuhang Li, Becoming Guanyin. Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
New York, Columbia University Press, 2020, 299 pages
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2021/4 No 196)
Introduction
Regulating religious pluralities: Indian and Chinese worlds compared
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2021/1 No 193)
Destroying Temples to Build Schools: Reconstituting a Historical Object
In Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident (2011/1 No 33)
Dean, Kenneth Zhenman, Zheng. Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Vol. 1: Historical Introduction to the Return of the Gods. Vol. 2: A Survey of Village Temples and Ritual Activities
Leiden, Brill, 2010, 404+xxx-1060 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2011/4 No 156)
Bureaucracy, Taxation, and Justice
Taoism and State Building in Jiangnan, China (17th–19th Centuries)
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2010/4 65th Year)
DeBernadi, Jean. The Way that Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit-Mediums in Penang, Malaysia
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2006, xviii+372 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2008/4 No 144)
Miller, James (eds.). Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies
Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2006, xvii+317 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2007/4 No 140)
Herrou, Adeline. La vie entre soi. Les moines taoïstes aujourd’hui en Chine
Nanterre, Société d’Ethnologie, 2005, 520 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2007/2 No 138)
Yang, Feggang Tamney, Joseph B. (eds.). State, Market and Religions in Chinese Societies
Leiden, Brill, 2005, viii+258 p. (coll. "Religion and the Social Order" 11)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2006/4 No 136)
Dott, Brian R. Identity Reflections: Pilgrimages to Mount Tai in Late Imperial China
Cambridge, Harvard University Asia Center, 2004, xiv+358 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2006/4 No 136)
Sutton, Donald S. Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press-Asia Center, 2003, xiii+418 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2006/2 No 134)
Reilly, Thomas H. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire
Seattle, The University of Washington Press, 2004, xi+235 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2006/2 No 134)
Wu, Eleanor B. Morris. From China to Taiwan: Historical, Anthropological and Religious Perspectives
Sankt Augustin, Monumenta Serica Institute, 2004, 274 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2005/3 No 131-132)
MacRae, John R. Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism
Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003, xx+204 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2005/2 No 130)
Clart, Philip. Religion in Modern Taiwan: Tradition and Innovation in a Changing Society
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2003, x+333 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2005/2 No 130)
Hubbard, Jamie. Absolute Delusion, Perfect Buddhahood: The Rise and Fall of a Chinese Heresy
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2001, xvii+333 p. (bibliogaphy, index, annexes)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2004/4 No 128)
Wang, Di. Street Culture in Chengdu: Public Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870-1930
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003, xiv+355 p. (bibliography, index, glossary, figures, maps)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2004/4 No 128)
Guo, Qitao. Exorcism and Money: The Symbolic World of the Five-Fury Spirits in Late Imperial China
Berkeley, CA, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2003, xii+227 p. (bibliography, index, figures, map)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2004/4 No 128)
Feuchtwang, Stephan Wang, Mingming. Grassroots Charisma: Four Local Leaders in China
London, Routledge, 2001, xv+205 p. (bibliography, index, illustrations) (coll. "Routledge Studies on China in Transition”)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2004/2 No 126)
Landry-Deron, Isabelle. La Preuve par la Chine. La "Description" de J.-B. Du Halde, jésuite, 1735
Paris, Éditions de l’EHESS, 2002, 428 p. (bibliography, annexes, glossary, index, illustrations) (coll. "Civilisations et sociétés," 110)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2004/2 No 126)
Chün-fang Yü, Kuan-yin. The Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara
New York, Columbia University Press, 2001, xiii+640 p. (bibliography, illustrations, maps, glossary, annexes, index)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2004/2 No 126)
Aijmer, Göran. New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times
Hong Kong, The Chinese University Press, 2003, viii+180 p. (bibliography, index)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2004/2 No 126)
The Concept of Religion in China and the West
In Diogenes (2004/1 No 205)
Thornton, S.A. Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyô-Ha
Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1999, xvi+290 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2003/4 No 124)
Yao, Xinzhong (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Confucianism
London, Routledge Curzon, 2003, 2 Volumes, xx+932 p. (bibliography, index)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2003/4 No 124)
Rowe, William T. Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Conciousness in Eighteenth-Century China
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2001, xii+601 p. (bibliography, glossary, illustrations, index)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2003/2 No 122)
Despeux, Catherine. Bouddhisme et lettrés dans la Chine médiévale
Paris-Leuven, Peeters, 2002, 373 p. (bibliogaphy, glossary, annexes, index) (coll. "Bibliothèque de l’Inalco," 1)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2003/2 No 122)
Spence, Jonathan D. Treason by the Book
London, Penguin, 2001, xvi+300 p. (bibliography, index, maps)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2003/2 No 122)
Girardot, Norman J. Miller, James Liu, Xiaogan. Daoism and Ecology: Ways Within a Cosmic Landscape
Cambridge, MA, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2001, lxxiii+478 p. (bibliography, glossary, index) (coll. "Religions of the World and Ecology”)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2003/2 No 122)
Hymes, Robert. Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China
Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002, xvii+364 p. (maps, index, glossary)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2002/4 No 120)
The Social Sciences Discover Chinese Buddhism in the 20th Century
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2002/4 No 120)
Bumbacher, Stephan Peter. The Fragments of the Daoxue Zhuan
Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2000, xv+609 p. (bibliography, index, tables, maps) ("European University Studies," "Asian and African Studies”)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2002/2 No 118)
Davis, Edward L. Society and the Supernatural in Song China
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2001, xi+355p. (bibliography, annexes, glossary, index)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2002/2 No 118)
Feutchwang, Stephan. Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor
Richmond, Curzon, 2001, xii+283 p. (bibliography, index, glossary)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2002/2 No 118)
Allès, Elisabeth. Musulmans de Chine. Une anthropologie des Hui du Henan
Paris, Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2000, 334 p. (bibliography, index, maps, illustrations, glossary)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2001/4 No 116)
Walton, Linda A. Academics and Society in Southern Sung China
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1999, x+309 p. (bibliography, tables, illustrations, maps, index)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2001/2 No 114)
Mcdermott, Joseph P. State and Court Ritual in China
Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 446 p. (glossary, index) ("Oriental Publications" 54)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2001/2 No 114)
Sommer, Matthew H. Sex, Law and Society in Late Imperial China
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000, xvi+413 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2000/4 No 112)
Formoso, Bernard. Identités en regard. Destins chinois en milieu bouddhiste thaï
Paris, C.N.R.S. Éditions, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 2000, xii+288 p. (maps, tables, illustrations, bibliography, glossary, index)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2000/4 No 112)
Ge, Hong. La Voie des divins immortels. Les chapitres discursifs du Baopuzi neipian
Paris, Gallimard, 1999, 227 p. (translated by Philippe Che) (coll. "Connaissance de l’Orient”)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2000/4 No 112)
Rawski, Evelyn S. The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998, xii+481 p. (bibliography, maps, tables, illustrations, glossary, index)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2000/4 No 112)
Meyer, Jan A.M de Englefriet, Peter M. (eds.). Linked Faiths: Essays on Chinese Religions and Traditional Culture in Honour of Kristofer Schipper
Leiden, Brill, 2000, 370 p. (maps, tables, illustrations, bibliography, glossary, index)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2000/4 No 112)
Overmyer, Daniel L. Precious Volumes: An Introduction to Chinese Sectarian Scriptures from the Sixteenth and the Seventeenth Centuries
Cambridge, MA, London, Harvard University Asia Center, 1999, xi+444 p. (coll. "Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series" 49)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2000/2 No 110)
Prazniak, Roxanne. Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels against Modernity in Late Imperial China
Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, xiii+304 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2000/2 No 110)
Shahar, Meir. Crazy Ji. Chinese Religion and Popular Literature
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Asia Center, 1998, xviii+330 p. (bibliography, maps, index, illustrations) ("Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series" 48)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2000/2 No 110)
Reiter, Florian. The Aspirations and Standards of Taoist Priests in the Early T’ang Period
Weisbaden, Harrassowitz, 1998, VIII+241 p. ("Asien-und Afrika-Studien der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin" 1)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2000/2 No 110)