Ting Guo (she/her) specialises in religion, politics, and gender in transnational Asia. She is Book Review Editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and an Honorary Researcher at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China (Amsterdam University Press, 2025) and co-host of the podcast 時差 in-betweenness (@shichapodcast).
Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China (Amsterdam University Press, 2025) examines how the language of love (愛 ai) has been appropriated and politicised by Chinese political leaders throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to legitimise authority, mobilise emotion, and shape state ideology. The book traces a genealogy from Sun Yat-sen’s […]
Throughout contemporary Chinese history, Shanghai has been perceived as an exceptional cosmopolitan space. While these days this exceptionalism is generally framed in terms of the city’s status as a global financial hub, it should not be forgotten that Shanghainese cosmopolitanism is rooted in more than a century of migration, grassroots activism, and the rejection of […]
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