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Lan Wu

Publication

Wu, L. (2022). Common ground: Tibetan Buddhist expansion and Qing China’s Inner Asia. Columbia University Press.

Wu, L. "Crafting Buddhist Art in Qing China's Contact Zones during the Eighteenth Century." Journal 18: A Journal of Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture (Nov, 2017)

Wu, L. Review of “The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion”, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017, by Peter Jackson, Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (Aug, 2017)

Wu, L. Review of “The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation”, New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, by Peter Schwieger, Journal of Asian History, (Nov, 2016): 159-162.

Wu, L. Biography of the Second Mindrol Nominhan, Lobzang Tendzin Gyatso. The Treasury of Lives, New York, NY (Dec, 2014)

Wu, L. Review of “Yonghegong: Art, Religion, and Politics in Beijing’s Lama Temple”, by Kevin Greenwood, Dissertation Reviews, (March, 2014)

Wu, L. Review of “The Mother of All Monasteries: Gönlung Jampa Ling and the Rise of Mega Monasteries in Northeastern Tibet”, by Brenton Sullivan, Dissertation Reviews, (March, 2014)

Wu, L. Review of Shincho to Chibetto Bukkyo: Bosatsuo to Natta Kenryutei (Qing China and the Tibetan Buddhist World: The Qianlong Emperor who had Become a Buddhist King) [In Japanese],” by Yumiko Ishihama, The Journal of Asian Studies, 71:4 (November 2012): 1133-1135.

Joanna Wuest

Award

Wuest, J. (2024) Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement (University of Chicago Press, 2023) was granted an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Rachel Carson Prize (Society for the Social Studies of Science).

Lisha Xu

Publication

Xu, L. (2017). Developing multimedia supplementary materials to support learning beginning level Chinese characters. In K. Borthwick, L. Bradley & S. Thouësny (Eds), CALL in a climate of change: adapting to turbulent global conditions – short papers from EUROCALL 2017 (pp. 333-338). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/ rpnet.2017.eurocall2017.736