James Robson (Chinese name: , born December 1, 1965) is James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at

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Director of the

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Biography

Robson received his BA in religious studies from the

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in 1987, and thereafter studied in China, Japan, and Taiwan for several years before pursuing his PhD at

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. After completing his doctorate in 2002, he worked at

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from 2002–2004, and

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from 2004–2008, where he received tenure in 2008. Robson became a Harvard faculty in 2008 and was promoted to full professor in 2012. Robson's book ''Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak ( Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China'' (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009) received the Stanislas Julien Prize for 2010 by the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres rix Stanislas Julien by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Institut de France)">Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres">rix Stanislas Julien by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Institut de France)and the 2010 Toshihide Numata Book Prize in Buddhism.

Major publications

* "Faith in Museums: On the Confluence of Museums and Religious Sites in Asia." ''PMLA'', 125, 1 (January 2010): 121–128. * ''Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia: Places of Practice''. London: Routledge, 2010. (Co-edited with James A. Benn and Lori Meeks) * ''The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China''. Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. : Winner of the 2010 Stanislas Julien Prize and 201
Toshihide Numata Book Prize
in Buddhism. * "Signs of Power: Talismanic Writing in Chinese Buddhism." ''History of Religions'', 48, 2 (November 2008): 130–169. * "Buddhism and the Chinese Marchmount System uyue Excavating the Strata of Mt. Nanyue’s Religious History." In John Lagerwey, ed., ''Religion and Chinese Society: Volume 1 Ancient and Medieval China''. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2004. * "A Tang Dynasty Chan Mummy oushenand a Modern Case of Furta Sacra? Investigating the Contested Bones of Shitou Xiqian." Bernard Faure, ed. ''Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context''. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. * "The Polymorphous Space of the Southern Marchmount anyue An Introduction to Nanyue's Religious History and Preliminary Notes on Buddhist and Daoist Interaction." ''Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie'' 8 (1995): 221–64.

External links

Homepage at Harvard

References

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