The Social Scientific Study of Religion in China

Summer Institutes 2007

第3届中美欧暑期宗教学高级研讨班  翻译

Nanlai Cao (曹南来)  Australian National University 人类学博士候选人

Ø     PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Name: Nanlai Cao (曹南来)

Date of Birth: 11/27/1976

Mailing Address: Dept. of Anthropology, RSPAS, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

Email: Nanlai.cao@anu.edu.au

 

Ø     EDUCATION

 Ph.D. Anthropology - 2008 (expected) - The Australian National University, Canberra

 M.A. Sociology -2000 - Fordham University, New York

B.A. Sociology -1998 - Peking University, Beijing

 

Ø     ARTICLES

 

2007. Christian Entrepreneurs and the Post-Mao State: An Ethnographic Account of Church-State Relations in China’s Economic Transition. Sociology of Religion 68 (1) 45-66.

 

2005. The Church as a Surrogate Family for Working Class Immigrant Chinese Youth: An Ethnography of Segmented Assimilation. Sociology of Religion 66 (2): 183-200.

 

Ø     WORKING PAPERS

  

2002. Negotiating the Local: Youth Adaptation Processes in a Chinatown Church. Sussex 

Migration Working Paper Series No. 7. Sussex, U.K.: Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex.   

 

Ø      BOOK REVIEWS

 

2007. Review of Narratives of the Chinese Economic Reforms: Individual Pathways from Plan to Market, edited by Dorothy J. Solinger. The Edwin Mellen Press. The China Journal 57: 171-173.

 

2006. Review of Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China, by Adam Yuet Chau. Stanford University Press. The China Journal 56: 171-173.

 

2005. Review of God and Caesar in China: Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions, edited by Jason Kindopp and Carol Lee Hamrin. Brookings Institute Press. The China Journal.53: 215-217.

 

 

Ø     TRANSLATIONS

 

             1999. Translation of Getting an Heir--Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late

              Imperial China by Ann Waltner. The University of Hawaii Press 1990; Zhejiang People’s

              Press, China.

 

Ø     AWARDS

 

2007  Joseph H. Fichter Research Award, Association for the Sociology of Religion

       2006  Jack Shand Research Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

2006  Robert J. McNamara Student Paper Award, Association for the Sociology of Religion.

       2005  Constant H. Jacquet Research Award, Religious Research Association

       2005  Graduate Symposium Travel Grant, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

             2004-2007  International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS), Australian Government

2004-2007  Ph.D. Scholarship, Australian National University, Canberra.

2003    Robert J. McNamara Student Paper Award, Association for the Sociology of Religion.

2000 & 2005 Ralph A. Gallagher Travel Grant, Association for the Sociology of Religion.

 2000  Academic Conference Travel Grant Award, Fordham University, NY.

1998-2002  Presidential Scholarship; tuition and stipend, Fordham University, NY.

1997  Yan Jingyao Scholarship, Peking University, Beijing.

 

 

Ø     PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Reviewer, Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review (2006)

              Member, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

              Member, Association for the Sociology of Religion

              Member, Religious Research Association