Individualization in China under Compressed and Contradictory Modernity

Translations and Transformations: China, Modernity and Cultural Transmission Workshop on Religion, Secularism, and Modernity in Asia

Why did conversion to Christianity take place in some Asian areas and not others? What happened when sacred and religious texts from Abrahamic traditions, especially Christianity, were translated into Chinese? What were the effects when the secular and the religious were asserted to be separate realms? What were the consequences for ideas about the private, the public, and the state? How did re...

Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China

In 1950, the Time Bookstore in Shanghai published a book titled Sexual Science by Zhang Mingyun.1 In nine chapters, the book summarises contemporary scientific research on animal and human sexuality, including perspectives from psychology, biomedicine, ethnology and sociology. Although the book provides no biographical information about the author, Zhang’s familiarity with the history of sexual...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Women in Turkey under Pressure of Inconsistent and Contradictory Legal Systems: Secular versus Islamic

As Turkey is officially a secular state and it adopts Swiss Civil Code, thestate implements secular legal system. However, as people in Turkey are predominantlyMuslim and theyare born and raised in a traditionally Muslim environment,people generally and especially women live under the influence of these two sometimescontradictory and inconsistent legal systems and customs. As a result, thereare...