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Jessica Xiaomin Zu

Assistant Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures

University of Southern California

Affiliations

College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Humanities

East Asian Studies Center

Religion

Jessica Xiaomin Zu is currently serving as a College Of Letters, Arts And Sciences Assistant Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Southern California.

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Jessica Xiaomin Zu

University of Southern California

Assistant Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures

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east asian studies asian studies chinese culture cultural studies contemporary china religious studies religion orientalism yoga chinese politics cultural history global history humanities religious research contemporary asia spirituality ink wash painting human condition modern china phenomenology (philosophy) aesthetics textual practice south asian culture aesthetic revolution lü cheng ayurveda anthropological theory intercultural studies asian economics international history chinese foreign policy transnational history japan studies liberal democracy comparative religion spiritual evolutionism objective humanities reflexive humanities ouyang jingwu yogācāra intersubjectivity performance studies ritual history of art art research asian english specialized translation ethnic studies geopolitics radical aesthetics art theory thanatology language localisation transnational networks civil society interfaith meditation philosophy of medicine practical philosophy document clustering distributional semantics collective knowledge philosophical inquiry critical thinking transhumanism injustice psychodynamic social theory social reality buddhism-inflected social ontology lu cheng must-read buddhist classics body politics rhizomic unconscious new technology comparative hermeneutics asian american buddhists philosophy of social science social philosophy east asian languages global studies cultural anthropology buddhist philosophy

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Just Awakening: Yogācāra Social Philosophy in Modern China. Columbia University Press (2025)

chinese cultureasian studiesyogācāra social philosophycultural studiesyogaeast asian studiescontemporary china

Karma, Adhipati, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Wang Enyang’s (1897–1964) YogāCāRa Theory of Transformative Nonviolence. Journal of Buddhist Philosophy (2025)

mass destructionethical theoryspiritualityphilosophymoralityasian studiestranshumanismtransformative nonviolencecritical theoryyogācāra theoryyogaeast asian studieshuman condition

Radical Buddhist Nuns in Sinophone Sphere. XX th International Association of Buddhist Studies conference, in Seminar 'Reading, Writing, and Rewiring Buddhist Genders', Leipzig University, Germany (2025)

chinese cultureradical buddhist nunsphilosophy of religionasian studiescultural studiesreligious studiescomparative religionsociology of religionreligionreligious research

Recovering Nonviolent Psychopolitics in PāLi Texts. American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting (2025)

moral philosophycritical theorypāli textshumanitiestextual practice

Adhipati, YogāCāRa Intersubjectivity, and Soteriology in Kuiji’s (632–682) Commentaries. Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (2024)

orientalismyogaayurvedaasian studiesyogācāra intersubjectivitysouth asian cultureeast asian languagesanthropological theoryphenomenology (philosophy)ritual

Adhipati, YogāCāRa Intersubjectivity, and Soteriology in Kuiji’s Commentaries. Sophia (2024)

orientalismyogayogācāra intersubjectivityeast asian languagesanthropological theoryphenomenology (philosophy)

Liberation Buddhology for Postracial Worldmaking. Religious Studies Review (2024)

Jessica X. Zu

postracial worldmakingreligionliberation buddhologyreligious studies

Philosophizing Caste, Race, and Shared Karma in Modern China. XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome (2024)

cultureasian studiesshared karmacultural studiescultural anthropologysocial anthropologychinese cultureeast asian studiessocial philosophycontemporary china

Buddhist Democracy: A Processual Philosophy of Civil Society. AAR Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas (2023)

buddhist democracydemocracypolitical studiesreligious studiesdemocratic theorycivil societypolitical philosophypolitical sciencepolitical sociologysociology of religionsocial philosophyliberal democracy

Collective-Karma-Cluster-Concepts in Chinese Canonical Sources: A Note. Journal of Global Buddhism (2023)

linguisticsclusteringknowledge discoverychinese canonical sourcesdocument clusteringsemantic evaluationcorpus linguisticssemanticslanguage resourcescomputational linguisticsgeneral linguisticsdistributional semanticseast asian languages

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Jessica Xiaomin Zu

Assistant Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures

University of Southern California

Affiliations

College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Humanities

East Asian Studies Center

Religion

Jessica Xiaomin Zu is currently serving as a College Of Letters, Arts And Sciences Assistant Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Southern California.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Jessica Xiaomin Zu

University of Southern California

Assistant Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Just Awakening: Yogācāra Social Philosophy in Modern China. Columbia University Press (2025)

chinese cultureasian studiesyogācāra social philosophycultural studiesyogaeast asian studiescontemporary china

Karma, Adhipati, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Wang Enyang’s (1897–1964) YogāCāRa Theory of Transformative Nonviolence. Journal of Buddhist Philosophy (2025)

mass destructionethical theoryspiritualityphilosophymoralityasian studiestranshumanismtransformative nonviolencecritical theoryyogācāra theoryyogaeast asian studieshuman condition

chinese cultureradical buddhist nunsphilosophy of religionasian studiescultural studiesreligious studiescomparative religionsociology of religionreligionreligious research

Recovering Nonviolent Psychopolitics in PāLi Texts. American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting (2025)

moral philosophycritical theorypāli textshumanitiestextual practice

Adhipati, YogāCāRa Intersubjectivity, and Soteriology in Kuiji’s (632–682) Commentaries. Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (2024)

orientalismyogaayurvedaasian studiesyogācāra intersubjectivitysouth asian cultureeast asian languagesanthropological theoryphenomenology (philosophy)ritual

Adhipati, YogāCāRa Intersubjectivity, and Soteriology in Kuiji’s Commentaries. Sophia (2024)

orientalismyogayogācāra intersubjectivityeast asian languagesanthropological theoryphenomenology (philosophy)

Liberation Buddhology for Postracial Worldmaking. Religious Studies Review (2024)

Jessica X. Zu

postracial worldmakingreligionliberation buddhologyreligious studies

Philosophizing Caste, Race, and Shared Karma in Modern China. XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome (2024)

cultureasian studiesshared karmacultural studiescultural anthropologysocial anthropologychinese cultureeast asian studiessocial philosophycontemporary china

Buddhist Democracy: A Processual Philosophy of Civil Society. AAR Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas (2023)

Collective-Karma-Cluster-Concepts in Chinese Canonical Sources: A Note. Journal of Global Buddhism (2023)

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