Huaiyu Chen

Huaiyu Chen (Ph.D., Princeton University) is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He has many publications on Chinese Buddhism, Religions on the Silk Road, animals in Chinese religions, and the history of modern Chinese humanities. His recent publications include In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions (2023) and Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science (2023). He has received a membership from Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2011-2012), Spalding Visiting Fellowship from Clare Hall of Cambridge University (2014-2015), and a visiting scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2018).