Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies

Ph. D. Harvard University, 2002

Office: LSB 120

(520) 626-0171

e-mail: jiangwu@email.arizona.edu

Teaches Chinese thought, religion and classical Chinese.

Research interests include seventeenth-century Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan Buddhism, the role of Buddhist canons in the formation of East Asian Buddhist culture, and the historical exchanges between Chinese Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism. Other interests include Confucianism, Chinese intellectual history and social history, and the application of Geographic Information System (GIS) in the study of Chinese religion. His dissertation, Orthodoxy, Controversy and the Transformation of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China (Harvard, 2002), investigates the intellectual and social origins of the Japanese Obaku school in China.

Research Assistant : Kit Yu Choy, MBA Candidate 2004, kychoy@email.arizona.edu