Mark Halperin

MARK

Professor of Chinese

304 Sproul Hall

EDUCATION AND DEGREE(S)

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1997)

RESEARCH INTEREST(S)

  • Medieval Chinese literature, religion, and literati culture
  • Chinese conceptions of fatherhood.

COURSE(S) TAUGHT

  • Great Books of China (CHN 11)
  • Classical Chinese I (CHN 114)
  • Classical Chinese II (CHN 115)
  • Classical Chinese III (CHN 116)
  • Daoist Traditions (CHN 100A)
  • Traditional Chinese Literature (CHN 107)
  • Confucian Traditions (CHN 100B)
  • Crime and Punishment in Traditional Chinese Literature (CHN 109A)
  • The Scholar and the Courtesan in Traditional Chinese Literature (CHN 109I)
  • Global Romances (HUM 002A)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
Books
Out of the Cloister: Literati Perspectives on Buddhism in Sung China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University East Asia Center, 2006.
 
Lu Rong. A Ming Confucian's World: Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden. Translated and introduced by Mark Halperin. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022.
 
Articles
"A Domesticated Charisma: Buddhist Hagiographies in Southern Song China (1127-1279)." History of Religions 63.1 (2023): 1-34.
 
"A Thirteenth-Century View: Virtue, Valor, and Violence in Helin yulu." Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 51(1): (2021): 37-83.
 
"Critical Patronage: A Few Southern Song Confucians and Daoism." Asia Major, 33(2) (2020): 93-134.
 
"Explaining Perfection: Quanzhen and Thirteenth-century Chinese Literati." T'oung Pao, 104 (2018): 572-625.
 
"Case Studies in Efficacy: A Reading of the Shenxian ganyu zhuan." Journal of Chinese Religions 41.1 (2013): 1-24.
 
"Men of the Way and their Fellow-Travelers: Taoists in Song Miscellanies." Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, 42 (2012): 95-149.
 
"Heroes, Rogues, and Religion in a Tenth-Century Chinese Miscellany."  Journal of the American Oriental Society 129.3 (2009): 413-430
 
"Domesticity and the Dharma: Portraits of Buddhist Laywomen in Sung China." T’oung Pao, 92.1-3 (2006): 50-100.
 
“Buddhist Temples, War Dead, and the Song Imperial Court." Asia Major 12.2 (1999): 71-99.
 
Book Chapters

"Serving the Gods." The Cambridge Companion to Song China. Ed. Cong Ellen Zhang (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 106-22.

“A Local Power-Holder.” Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives. Ed. Patricia Ebrey, Ping Yao, Cong Ellen Zhang (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019), 130-137

“Buddhism and the Southern Chinese Literati in the Mongol Era.” Modern Chinese Religion, Part One: Song- Liao-Jin-Yuan, 907-1368. Ed. John Lagerwey (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2015), 1433-1492