- qinqin.peng@uni-goettingen.de
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Qinqin Peng has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen since 2022. After studying Chinese literature and philosophy in Nanjing, she obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 2021 and continued working there as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher. She is also an affiliated researcher in the GRK program “East Asian Futures” at Ruhr University Bochum.
Qinqin Peng’s research focuses on the intellectual history of religion in early twentieth-century China, with a particular interest in the transformation of religious knowledge and paradigm shifts in Buddhist scholarship. She is currently developing her dissertation—“Between Faith and Truth: The Historiography of Buddhism in Modern China (1902–1965)”—into a monograph, examining how Buddhist elites and historians contributed to the formation of Chinese religious and cultural identity through historiography.
In her recent project, Qinqin Peng explores the role of religion in modern Chinese intellectual life and the transformation of religious traditions within the new political and social context of modern China. She focuses on shifts in religion-related concepts and discourses during the Republican period.
She teaches graduate courses on Chinese religion and history.