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John Lagerwey中文名:劳格文),著名法国汉学家,法国高等研究学院(EPHE)荣休教授,香港中文大学中国研究中心教授。曾在美国哈佛大学东亚语言与文明系师从中国古代文学专家海陶玮(J. R. Hightower)教授完成有关《吴越春秋》的博士论文,1975年获得博士学位。随后在法国高等研究学院师从著名道教学者康德谟(M. Kaltenmark)教授和施舟人(K. Schipper)教授从事博士后研究。1977年成为法国远东学院(EFEO)研究员,2000年始任法国高等研究学院宗教学部道教史与中国宗教专业教授,2008任香港中文大学中国研究中心讲座教授。

主要从事道教和中国宗教研究,著述甚丰,大都结合文献记载和田野调查,见解独到而深刻。除大量论文之外,专著包括《〈无上秘要〉——六世纪的道教大全》(法文)、《中国社会和历史中的道教仪式》(英文)、《神州——道教视野中的中国》(法文)、《中国——一个宗教国度》(英文)、《华南民俗志》。主编《传统客家社会丛书》(30卷)、《徽州传统社会丛书》(5册)、《客家传统社会》(2册)、《宗教与中国社会》(2,英文)、《上古和中古中国的宗教与社会》法文《中国乡村与墟镇神圣空间的建构》《跨文化视野下的民俗文化研究丛书》《道教仪式丛书》。

近十年主编的中国宗教史著系列(Early Chinese Religion; Modern Chinese Religion)由荷兰博睿(Brill学术出版社陆续出版,包括商汉宗教史、魏晋南北朝宗教史、宋辽金元宗教史、近代(18502015中国宗教史各二卷。四部全面深入地论述了中国历史上几个重大转型时期的国家宗教、儒释道三教和民间宗教,阐述了关于中国宗教史各个领域的一般性结论和总的看法。另外还以这四部史著为基础,于2019年撰著出版了博睿中国宗教简史Paradigm Shifts in Early and Modern Chinese Religion: A History早期和近代转型时期的中国宗教史)。

 

【英文简历】

John LAGERWEY

 

Present position:  Research Professor in Chinese Studies, Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Academic career:

 

1967 B.A English Literature, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)

1975 Ph.D. Chinese Literature, Harvard University

Subject of my thesis: “The Wu Yue chunqiu, an historical novel of the first century AD”

1975-77 Post-doctoral study of Taoism under professors Max Kaltenmark and Kristofer Schipper, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris-Sorbonne)

1977-2000 Member of the Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO)

1976-85    Secretary of the Daozang Project

1986-87 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

1990 Invited Professor, Anthropology Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

1990-91, 1992-93 Invited Professor, History of Taoism, University of Geneva

1992 Diploma of Habilitation for the direction of doctoral theses, University of Paris-VII (Jussieu)

1991-93, 1995-96 Lecturer on the History of Taoism, University of Paris-IV (Sorbonne)

1993-95, 1996-98 Director of the EFEO centre at CUHK; Invited Professor, Religion Department, CUHK

2000-08, 2010-11 Chair Professor, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris-Sorbonne)

2004 Invited Professor, Institute of Chinese Studies (CUHK)

2007 Invited Professor, History Department (CUHK)

2008-2015 Full Professor, Centre for China Studies (CUHK)

2015-present Research Professor, Centre for China Studies (CUHK)

 

Research contracts

 

1994-1997 Director of a project financed by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation on “Structure and Dynamics of Chinese Rural Society”. This project was carried out in collaboration with the Academy of Social Sciences of Fujian, Jiaying and Shaoguan universities in Guangdong, and Gannan Normal College in Jiangxi. The project published ten volumes of ethnographic reports on traditional festivals and social organization among the Hakka in southeast China.

 

1999-2002 Co-director of a project on ‘‘Religious Festivals in Northern Guangdong’’ financed by an Earmarked Grant from the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, together with  Professor Tam Wai Lun, (Chinese University of Hong Kong).  This project produced six volumes on the Hakka.

 

· 2001-2004 Director of a project financed by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation on “Religion, Architecture, and the Economy in Southeast China”, carried out in collaboration with Professor Tam Wai Lun and Ho Puay Peng (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Paul Katz (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Yang Yanjie (Fujian Academy of Social Sciences), and Liu Jinfeng (Gannan Regional Museum). This project produced seven volumes on the Hakka, village architecture, and local religion in Zhejiang.

 

· 2004-2006 Co-director of a project on ‘‘Local Religion and Society in southeast China’’ financed by an Earmarked Grant from the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, together with Professor Tam Wai Lun, (Chinese University of Hong Kong).  This project produced seven volumes of ethnographic reports on local religion and society in southeast China.

 

· 2006-2009 Co-director with Professor Tam Wai Lun of a project on “Religion and Society in Southeast China” financed by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. This project produced eight volumes of ethnographic reports on local religion and society in southeast China.

 

· 2008-2012 Director of a project on “Religion, Society, and the Economy in Huizhou” financed by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. This project produced six volumes of ethnographic reports on local society in Huizhou (southern Anhui, northern Jiangxi).

 

· 2014-present Director of a project aimed at the production of 15 volumes of studies of Daoist altars and their rituals, combined with critical editions of their ritual manuscripts 道教儀式叢書.

 

Books

 

1981 Le Wu-shang pi-yao : somme taoïste du VIe siècle (Paris, EFEO)

1987 Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History (New York, Macmillan)

1991 Le continent des esprits: la Chine dans le miroir du taoïsme (Bruxelles, La Renaissance du Livre)

2010 China: A Religious State (HK University Press)

 

Editing of joint volumes

 

Numbers 4 and 5 of Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie (EFEO-Kyoto) on Taoism (1989-90)

Thematic issue of the Bulletin of the EFEO (BEFEO): Comportement rituel et corps social en Asie (BEFEO 79.2, 1992)

Number 12 of Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie (EFEO-Kyoto) on Methodology in the Study of Chinese Religion (2002)

“Traditional Hakka Society Series” (in Chinese; 30 volumes published, 1996-2006)

Religion and Chinese Society vol. 1: Ancient and Medieval China; vol. 2: Taoism and Local Religion in Modern China (EFEO and CUHK Press, 2004)

Early Chinese Religion part 1 (2 vols): Shang through Han (Brill, 2009), co-editor Marc Kalinowski; part 2 (2 vols): The Period of Division (Brill, 2010), co-editor Lü Pengzhi

Minsu quyi 174 (2011)

“Huizhou Traditional Society Series” (in Chinese; 6 volumes published, 2011-16).

Modern Chinese Religion part 1 (2 vols): Song-Yuan (Brill, 2014), co-editor Pierre Marsone; part 2 (2 vols): 1850-2015  (Brill, 2015), co-editors Vincent Goossaert and Jan Kiely.

 

Organization of international conferences

 

June 1996, in Taiyuan (Shanxi), “Music, ritual and theater in social context in China”; publication of 41 articles in three volumes of the Minsu quyi (Taiwan, 1999)

May 1998, CUHK, “Ethnography in China today:  A critical assessment of methods and results”; published as Ethnography in China Today, ed. Daniel Overmyer (Yuan-Liou, Taipei, 2002)

May 2000, CUHK, “Religion and Chinese Society: The Transformation of a Field and its Implications for the Study of Chinese Culture”; published as Religion and Chinese Society, 2 vols (EFEO-CUHK Press, 2004)

October 2003, “Religion et politique en Asie: histoire et actualité”; published under same title (Paris, Les Indes savantes, 2006)

December 2006, “Rituals, pantheons, and techniques: A history of Chinese religion before the Tang,” published in four volumes by Brill (2009-10).

November 2011, “The construction of village space in China” (published as 中国乡村与墟镇神圣空间的建构 by Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2014)

June 2012, “Modern Chinese religion: Song-Liao-Jin-Yuan” (published by Brill, 2014)

December 2012, “Modern Chinese religion: 1850-2015” (published by Brill, 2015)

September 2017, “The emergence of a temple-centric society in Song-Ming China” (developed from a workshop on “Local society and its religious institutions” organized for the AoE “The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society”, 28-29 September 2016)