Jinhua Jia is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Macau. Xiaofei Kang is Associate Professor of Religion at the George Washington University. Ping Yao is Professor of History and Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Program at California State University, Los Angeles.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
Jinhua Jia, Xiaofei Kang, Ping Yao

Part I. Restoring Female Religiosity and Subjectivity

1. Tang Women in the Transformation of Buddhist Filiality
Ping Yao

2. Writing Oneself into the Tradition: The Autobiographical Sermon of Chen Master Jizong Xingche (b. 1606)
Beata Grant

3. Making Religion, Making the New Woman: Reading Su Xuelin's Autobiographical Novel Jixin (Thorny Heart)
Zhange Ni

Part II. Redefining Identity and Tradition

4. The Identity of Tang Daoist Priestesses
Jinhua Jia

5. Revisiting White-haired Girl: Women, Gender, and Religion in Communist Revolutionary Propoganda
Xiaofei Kang

6. Negotiating between Two Patriarchies: Chinese Christian Women in Postcolonial Hong Kong
Wai Ching Angela Wong

Part III. Recovering Bodily Differences

7. Birthing the Self: Metaphor and Transformation in Medieval Daoism
Gil Raz

8. Female Alchemy: Transformation of a Gendered Body
Elena Valussi

9. A Religious Menopausal Ritual: Changing Body, Identity, and Values
Neky Tak-ching Cheung


Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index