Fictional Dictionaries

December 20, 2017

I am utterly delighted to announce that my article ‘Fictional Dictionaries: Power and Philosophy of Language in Contemporary Chinese Fiction’ …

Stockholm Dreaming China

August 30, 2016

Earlier this month, I attended the conference Exploring the China Dream at Stockholm University – glorious good fun including more …

April 7, 2014

The popular Daoist stories of the Eight Immortals (baxian 八仙) are believed to have developed sometime between the Tang (618-906 …

October 2, 2013

My article on Daoism and eating in 棋王 (The Chess King) by Ah Cheng has been published in the latest …

May 9, 2012

Last weekend I attended the CHAOS symposium 2012 in Göteborg on Religion and Literature together with a nice blend of …

March 25, 2012

Reading Kristofer Schipper’s book The Taoist Body from 1982 in the park today (see picture) I was intrigued by the …

March 13, 2012

Just had an abstract accepted for the CHAOS symposium 2012: Religion and literature in Gothenburg in May. This is another …