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TING GUO 郭婷
Center on Religion and Chinese Society
Heavilon Hall, Room G16
500 Oval Drive,
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Purdue University
(765) 337 4944
[email protected]
CURRENT POSITION
10/2015 –
Present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Religion and Chinese Society,
Purdue University
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2015
2014
2012
2011-2012
2011-2013
Research Assistant, Dahrendorf Programme of Freedom, St.
Antony’s College, Oxford
Programme Assistant, Department of Continuing Education,
University of Oxford
Lecturer, Alba Cathay Chinese School, Edinburgh
Lecturer, Confucius Institute, Edinburgh
Tutor, Department of Religious Studies, University of
Edinburgh
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Religion, Society & Politics
Biographical Method
Comparative Religion
Media, Religion, Digital Age
World Christianities
Identity
COURSES TAUGHT
World Religions, Rituals and Festivals in China, Social Scientific Methods in the
Study of Religion (Anthropology & Sociology of Religion), Phenomenology of
Religion, Introduction to Confucianism, Gender and Family in China
EDUCATION
2009-2015 Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh
Thesis: “‘Spirituality’ in the Digital Age: Alan Turing, Human Intellect
and Artificial Intelligence”
Awarded the Edinburgh Innovation Initiative Grant
2008-2009 M.Sc. in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Attended seminars at the Centre for Christianity in the Non-Western
World
Audited M.Th. courses “Christian History in Asia” and “Christian
Theology in Asia”
2004-2008 B.Phil. in Religious Studies and Philosophy, Fudan University
Dissertation: “The Virtue and the Obscenity of Palden Lhamo: Female
Identity in Tibetan Tantric Buddhism”
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Essay on Christianity and homosexuality won Chi Sing Foundation Essay
Competition, Taiwan
Awarded People’s Scholarship and Essential Subjects Scholarship for
outstanding performance throughout 4 years of study
HONOURS AND AWARDS
2015
2014
2014
2012
2012
2011
2011
2009
2005
2005
2004 – 2006
Large Grant, Oxford Centre for Taiwan Studies Program, Taiwan
Representative Office in the UK
Event Grant, Oxford Centre for Taiwan Studies Program
Conference Grant, Contemporary China Studies Program (CCSP),
University of Oxford
Innovation Initiative Grant, University of Edinburgh
Postgraduate Research and Conference Bursary, School of Divinity,
University of Edinburgh
Postgraduate Research and Conference Bursary, School of Divinity,
University of Edinburgh
Student Bursary, British Association for the Study of Religions
Postgraduate Research and Conference Bursary, School of Divinity,
University of Edinburgh
Winner of essay competition, Chi Sing Foundation, Taiwan
People’s Scholarship, Fudan University, China
Essential Subject Scholarship, Fudan University, China
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
2012. Illustrator for J. Guo’s《中国传统戏曲的法眼解读: 金龙难娶玉堂春》
Interpreting Chinese Drama with Legal Historical Perspectives. Peking:
Peking University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
(co-authored with Henrietta Harrison) “麦传世 (1688-1737)与‘默想神工畧说’：清
中叶甘肃地区天主教传播情况侧写 [Francesco Jovino di Ottaiano and
HisIntroduction to Catholic Meditation: A Biographical Study of Catholic
Mission in Mid-Qing Period].” Logos & Pneuma: Chinese Journal of
Theology 《道風：基督教文化評論》, under peer-review.
“Spirituality as Self-Reconceptualisation: Etymological Investigation and A New
Conceptual Model”, Culture and Religion, submitted.
(forthcoming) “Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence and the Reconceptualisation of
Human Self-knowledge”, Anthropology Today.
(forthcoming) “Spirituality” as Re-Conceptualisation of the Self: Alan Turing and His
Pioneering Ideas on Artificial Intelligence”, Culture and Religion.
(forthcoming) “Bourgeois Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism and Liberal Theology: The
Quest for Composure of P. C. Chun (1892-1960),” Transformation: An
International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies.
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(forthcoming) “Wang Mingdao (1900-91),” in Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese
Biography, edited by Kerry Brown. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire.
2014 “柏林牆的倒下與重建──前東德成人儀式的意義 [The Fall and the
Reconstruction of the Berlin Wall: The Meaning of the Former East German
Rites of Passage],” CommonWealth 天下雜誌.
2014 “Spirituality as Reconceptualising Oneself,” Science and Religion @ Edinburgh,
University of Edinburgh.
2013 “Cloud Atlas,” Journal of Religion and Film 17, No. 2 (2013), Article 14.
Columns and Commentary Pieces
2015 “Shakespeare in Mandarin: The Intertextuality and Spiritual Space of Cultures,”
BBC Chinese, July 26 2015.
2015 “Blood Brides: Feminist Activists Cracking China’s Patriarchal Order,”
OpenDemocracy, July 9 2015.
2015 “Elegant Colonialism: The Social History of Tea in Britain,” BBC Chinese,
June 22 2015.
2015 “Communist Bop: Dancing with Mao or Rethinking Political Contexts?” BBC
Chinese, June 8 2015.
2015 “William Morris and Andy Warhol: The Making of Modern Mythology and
Political Artists” (in Chinese), Book Town 书城 (June 2015)
2015 “Feasts on the Move,” Vision Magazine (Mar. 2015).
2015 “World of Yesterday: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution” (in Chinese),
Book Town 书城, No. 5 (2015).
2015 “British Museum’s Ming Exhibition: 50 Years that Changed China” (in
Chinese), Book Town 书城, No. 4 (2015).
2015 “From Imperial Blue to Blue Denmark” (in Chinese), Book Town 书城, No. 2
(2015): 124-27.
2015 “Chasing Idyll: The Kingdom of Secondhand Books, Hay-on-Wye” (in Chinese),
Book Town 书城, No. 1 (2015): 106-110.
2014 “The Cultural Logic of Culinary Nostalgia” (in Chinese), Book Town 书城, No.
10 (2014).
2014 “The Scottish Referendum, Hong Kong Umbrella and Taiwan Sunflower
Movements,” China Outlook (Oct. 2014).
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2014 “For Hong Kongers and Mainland Chinese, A Great Umbrella Revolution
“Unfriending” War,” China Outlook (Oct. 2014).
2014 “A Tale of Two Cities—Shanghai and Hong Kong,” China Outlook (Sep. 2014).
2014 “Report on ‘Reflexivity on Chinese Nationalism and Identity’ Workshop,”
Contemporary China Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies
Website, University of Oxford (Jul. 2014).
2014 “HongKongers Want a Say in Who Governs Them,” China Outlook (Jul. 2014).
2014 “One-in-Five Children Are ‘Left Behind’ By China’s Migrant Parents,” China
Outlook (Jul. 2014).
2014 “What is Behind the Church Demolitions in Wenzhou?” China Outlook (Mar.
2014)
2014 “Coming to Terms with Religion,” China Outlook (Feb. 2014).
Reviews
2015 “Shanghai Homes and Disappearing Shanghai: The Paradoxical Power of
Memory,” Los Angeles Review of Books (26 May 2015).
2014 Review of The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China
and India, by Peter van der Veer, Oxford Comparative Criticism &
Translation Review (Aug. 2014).
2014 “A Sweeping Religious Humanity,” The Expository Times 125, No. 5 (Feb.
2014): 25.
2014 “Hegel’s Political Agenda in His Philosophy of Religion,” The Expository
Times 125, No. 4 (Jan. 2014): 198-199.
2012 “Hume’s Irreligious Riddle in Treatise of Man,” The Expository Times 123, No.
5 (Feb. 2012): 256-67.
2012 Review of In Search of Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Personhood,
edited by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen and Erik P. Wiebe, Reviews of Science
and Religion 60 (2012): 47-52.
2011 “Death, Dismissed,” The Expository Times 123, No. 3, (Dec. 2011): 154-55.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Alan Turing, AI and Human Self-Knowledge. Book monograph, manuscript
completed.
An Episcopalian Family in Shanghai, 1920s to 2010s. Book monograph.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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Sept. 2015 “Cosmopolitanism, Anglicanism and National Identity: The Chun Family's
Quest for Composure.” In Search of New Perspectives, Methods and Finer
Factors of Identity Formation—From East Asia to the World, St Antony's
College, Oxford.
Sept. 2015 “A Shenggonghui House Church in Republican Shanghai.” British
Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) conference, University of Leeds.
Sept. 2015 “Cosmopolitan Spirit, National Identity, and Liberal Theology: An
Episcopalian “House Church” in Shanghai.” British Association for the Study
of Religions (BASR) 2015 conference, Asia, Religion and Global Issues
panel, University of Kent.
Aug. 2015 “Historical Legacy of Episcopalian “Cosmopolitan House Church” in
Republican and Early Communist Shanghai (1910-1950s).” Accepted for the
XXIth World Congress of the International Association for the History of
Religion (IAHR), Erfurt, Germany.
May 2014 “Petit-Bourgeois and Cosmopolitan Theology: The Quest for Composure
through the Lens of House Churches in Shanghai.” Glocalisation of
Christianity in China, University of Manchester, UK.
Aug. 2013 “Calling for Anthropological Study of the Underground Churches in
Shanghai.” Scottish Centre for China Research, Glasgow, UK
May 2012 “Biographical Spirituality.” AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society
Programme, Sacred Practices of Everyday Life, Edinburgh, UK.
Jun. 2011 “Creative Mind and Reinvention of Ourselves – Machine Intelligence vs
Human Limit.” Ian Ramsay Centre, Evolution of Morality Conference, Oxford,
UK.
Apr. 2011 “Artificial Intelligence: Technoscience Calling for Reinvention of
Ourselves, Rethinking Spirituality and Innovative Sociology of Religion.”
British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK.
Apr. 2011 “Intelligence Machinery as Immanent Becoming in a Post-human Age.”
The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion Conference, Syracuse
University, NY, USA.
Apr. 2010 “Reconsider Divine Knowledge in the Scope of Technoscience Age.”
Religion in Modernisierungsprozessen Conference, Erfurt University,
Germany.
Nov. 2010 “Artificial Intelligence and Spirituality: Reconsider Spirituality,
Technoscience, and the Modern World.” The XXth World Congress of IAHR:
Religion, a Human Phenomenon. University of Toronto, Canada.
Mar. 2010 “Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Religion.” AHRC/ESRC
Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference, London, UK.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Edinburgh, 2011-2013
In all the tutorials, I was responsible for
 Communicating with students and faculty via ELearning, an online learning
and teaching device
 Giving feedbacks and evaluation of students performance
 Marking all the course essays in the group
I also developed different strategies to different courses and tutorial groups:
World Religions
 Prepared weekly tutorials for a group of 12 undergraduates
 Covered topics including the history, development and modern-day
transformations of Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism
 Encouraged students to discuss weekly readings with materials from
outside the course on current affairs
 Used visual materials, including documentaries and ethnographic films
to demonstrate key concepts
Social Scientific Methods in the Study of Religion
 Taught tutorials to a group of 14 students on Sociology, Anthropology,
Cognitive Science of Religion
 Introduced latest articles and debates on those topics
Phenomenology of Religion
 Intensive tutorials to a small group of undergraduates
 Designed student debates and presentations to help the students better
engage with the readings
Alba Cathay Chinese School, 2013, Lecturer for arts
Confucius Institute for Scotland, 2010, Guest lecturer for Chinese cultural traditions
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
20152009-2014
2011
2009 & 2011
2010
2007
University of Oxford
University of Edinburgh
Bletchley Park National Museum of
Computing
King’s College Modern Archive,
University of Cambridge
History of Christianity Project,
University of Edinburgh
400 Years of Christianity in Shanghai
and Xu Guangqi (Servant of God, 1562
– 1633), Shanghai Academy of Social
Sciences
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Research Assistant
Doctoral Researcher
Visiting Researcher
Visiting Researcher
Project Collaborator
Research Assistant
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ACADEMIC SERVICE
Sept. 2015
Jul. 2014
Aug. 2014
May 2011
2011 – 2012
Organiser of international conference “In Search of New
Perspectives, Methods and Finer Factors of Identity Formation: From
East Asia to the World”, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Organiser of “Reflexivity on Chinese Nationalism and Identity”
Conference, Rhodes House, University of Oxford
Reviewer of a journal article on Shanghai jazz (1937-1945) for The
Soundtrack
Project collaborator for the History of Christianity project, School of
Divinity, University of Edinburgh
Assistant convener of Religious Studies Seminars, University of
Edinburgh
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Media
2015 -
BBC
20152014
OpenDemocracy Contributor
Editor and Contributor
China Outlook
2014
UK Chinese
Times
Contemporary
Buddhism in
China Program,
China Central
Television
(CCTV)
2008
Contributor
Feature editor and Columnist
Scriptwriter and Consultant
I researched and wrote about how individuals
experienced the religious revival in China and/or
kept their religious traditions within the family
and community.
Community Service
2013
2004-2007
2004-2006
1998-2008
Scotland Chinese Alumni International
(SCAI)
Shanghai Discovery Children Museum
Red Cross, Fudan University, Shanghai,
China
YMCA and YWCA, Shanghai, China
First ambassador
Volunteer
Peer participant lecturer
Volunteer
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2015-present
2014-present
2013-present
2011-present
2011-present
2010-present
American Academy of Religion (AAR)
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW)
Scottish Centre for China Research
The Science and Religion Forum
Non-religion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN) - Project
Collaborator
British Sociological Association (BSA)
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LANGUAGES AND IT SKILLS
Languages
Chinese
English
Japanese
French
German
Native in Mandarin, Shanghainese (Wu) and Cantonese
Near-native level
Basic
Basic literacy & translation ability
Basic literacy & translation ability
IT Skills
Proficiency in: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Graphic software
packages , Linux (Ubuntu), Mac text and graphic systems, Online teaching and
management systems (WebCT)
GIS and other Digital Humanities skills
Blogger for 10 years, familiar with website design and editing
References available upon request
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