Matthew William King
| PersonType | Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors Category:Translators |
|---|---|
| FirstName / namefirst | Matthew |
| LastName / namelast | King |
| namemiddle | William |
| MainNamePhon | Matthew William King |
| SortName | King, Matthew |
| bio | 2024 Publication Forthcoming with Khenpo Kunga Sherab: The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage: Volume 1
Matthew King is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Director of Asian Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His research examines the social history of knowledge in Buddhist scholastic networks extending across the Tibeto-Mongolian frontiers of the late Qing empire and its revolutionary ruins. Much of his published work has focused on encounters between Buddhist scholasticism, science, humanism, and state socialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. His work is also broadly engaged with methodological revision in the study of religion and Buddhist Studies, and in revisionist theoretical projects associated with the critical Asian humanities. His first book Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire (Columbia University Press, 2019), was awarded the American Academy of Religion Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies book award, the Central Eurasian Studies Society's 2020 Best Book in History and Humanities, and the International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize (Specialist Publication). Ocean of Milk illuminates previously unknown religious and intellectual legacies of the Qing long after its political ending. Here, post-imperial “counter-modern” Buddhist thought emerges as a foil for the hegemony of the national-subject and “the modern” in scholarship about early twentieth century Asia. |
| associatedwebsite | https://ucriverside.academia.edu/MatthewKing |
| phduniversity | University of Toronto |
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