Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives

About the author

Ekaterina Zavidovskaya (叶可嘉) is Adjunct assistant professor, Center for General Education of National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Previously she was Assistant Professor adjunct of Nanhua University and Department of literature, Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Asian and African studies, and Chair of Chinese Philology. She obtained PhD on Chinese, East Asia and Southeast Asia studies, at Moscow State Linguistic University, Institute of Oriental of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Her research interests include popular religion in China and Taiwan, the religious life of the ethnic Chinese in South-East Asia, self-governance in Chinese society, Chinese traditional opera, contemporary Chinese literature, lay and professional (Taoist) ritual specialists, and divination practices in the North Vietnam ethnic minority areas. She published papers on prominent figures of modern literary, and more on popular religion in modern rural China.