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About Daigengna Duoer
Daigengna Duoer (pronounced “dye-gain-na” “door“; she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Religious Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation is a digital humanities project mapping the history of transnational and transregional Buddhist networks connecting early twentieth-century Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Republican China, Tibet, and the Japanese Empire. Daigengna is a host for the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast, a channel on the New Books Network. She is also the Editor-in-chief for the Digital Orientalist, an online magazine on digital humanities.Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Religious Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation is a digital humanities project mapping the history of transnational and transregional Buddhist networks connecting early twentieth-century Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Republican China, Tibet, and the Japanese Empire.
NBN Episodes hosted by Daigengna:
October 21, 2022
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan (Cambridge University Press 2022) is a new addition to a list of publications by Sabine Fruhstuck, one of the lea…
April 13, 2022
Conflicting Memories
After the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, history under him was retold: for example, the Cultural Revolution was rebranded as “Ten Years of Chaos” and it…
March 24, 2022
Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China
When we think of pre-Buddhism Chinese philosophy, ideas such as filial piety and “the Dao” might come to mind. But what was at stake in the philosophi…
February 14, 2022
A Timely Message from the Cave
Following the globalization of Tibetan Buddhism in the second half of the twentieth century, Indo-Tibetan Buddhist teachings such as Mahāmudrā have be…
November 17, 2021
Lineages of the Literary
What happened to the Buddhist scholars who stayed behind in Tibet and China after the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and thousands of Tibetans fled from the Pe…
October 19, 2021
In the Forest of the Blind
What would an “anti-field history” of Buddhist Studies look like? What does the social history of knowledge look like when it both includes and exceed…
April 26, 2021
Defining Shugendo
Andrea Castiglioni, Fabio Rambelli and Carina Roth's edited volume Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion (Bloomsbury, 2020…
April 23, 2021
A Monastery on the Move
How, and why did a ger (yurt) develop into the largest and most important monastery in Mongolia, and how did it support the authority of its main resi…
April 22, 2021
Building a Religious Empire
How did Geluk Buddhism become the most widespread school of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Asia and beyond? In Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhis…
April 21, 2021
Into the Field
How did Japanese academics study their "fields" in places like Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the transwar decades? How did they transform in the pos…
March 24, 2021
Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948)
How does revolution literature help to engage Mongolia’s nomadic population with the utopia of a “new society” promised by the Mongolian People’s Revo…
March 22, 2021
Beyond Pan-Asianism
What were the stories of modern China-India relations in the age of empires? How did India and China engage with each other beyond pan-Asianist and an…
March 8, 2021
Ishikawa Sanshiro's Geographical Imagination
Ishikawa Sanshirō (1876-1956) was a journalist, intellectual, and self-proclaimed socialist active in early twentieth-century Japan. In Ishikawa Sansh…
February 26, 2021
The Sea and the Sacred in Japan
In The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion (Bloomsbury 2018), Fabio Rambelli invites various fifteen scholars of Japanese religi…
February 24, 2021
Buddhism after Mao
With over 100 million followers, Buddhism in the People's Republic of China now fosters the largest community in the world of individuals who self-ide…
January 29, 2021
Medicine and Memory in Tibet
Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform (University of Washington Press, 2018) is the first full-length ethnography of Tibe…
January 25, 2021
Constructing Empire
What happens to everyday-life in a city when it becomes subsumed into an empire? Who becomes responsible for the everyday building and management of t…
December 22, 2020
Buddhist Tourism in Asia
This edited volume is the first book-length study of Buddhist tourism in contemporary Asia in the English language. Featuring chapters from diverse co…
December 9, 2020
Monks in Motion
Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea (Oxford University Press 2020) is the first monograph in the English language to ex…
December 8, 2020
China's Good War
Although World War II had been largely remembered in the People’s Republic of China as an experience of victimization since its founding in 1949, that…
October 28, 2020
Jesus Loves Japan
In 1990, the Japanese government introduced the Nikkei-jin (Japanese descendant) visa and since then it has attracted more than 190,000 Nikkei Brazili…
September 28, 2020
Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan
In Japan, a country popularly perceived as highly secularized and technologically advanced, ontological assumptions about spirits (tama or tamashii) s…
September 24, 2020
Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese
While Tibetan Buddhism continues to face restrictions and challenges imposed by the state in contemporary China, it has in fact entered mainstream Chi…
September 17, 2020
The Fabric of Indigeneity
The Fabric of Indigeneity: Ainu Identity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Japan (University of New Mexico Press) is a recent addition to the growin…