[FR] Je suis historien des religions chinoises et en particulier du taoïsme, et de la culture juridique dans la Chine impériale tardive. Mes recherches examinent la manière dont moralité, normativité, transgression et pratiques rituelles ont été pensées, codifiées et vécues à l’articulation des communautés religieuses, des juridictions locales et de la culture de l’imprimé, dans une perspective attentive aux circulations entre savoirs doctrinaux, dispositifs normatifs et pratiques sociales.

J’adopte pour cela une démarche fondée sur un corpus documentaire étendu, qui va des textes religieux bouddhiques, taoïstes et sectaires aux codes et commentaires juridiques, des dossiers judiciaires conservés dans les archives locales et centrales à la littérature narrative, aux monographies locales, aux inscriptions épigraphiques, aux textes révélés par écriture inspirée, à la presse, ainsi qu’aux grands corpus numériques. Il s’agit ainsi de restituer les modalités de coproduction de l’autorité religieuse et de l’ordre juridique dans la Chine impériale tardive.

Plus largement, mes travaux s’inscrivent dans une réflexion de longue durée sur les rapports entre religion, droit, littérature, médecine et environnement dans les mondes sinophones.

ORCID : https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0576-3476
Researchgate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Qijun-Zheng-3
Academia : https://ephe.academia.edu/QijunZheng
HAL : https://hal.science/search/index/q/*/authIdHal_s/qijunzheng

[EN] I am a historian of Chinese religions (with a particular focus on Daoism) and of legal culture in late imperial China. [COUPURE]My research examines how morality, normativity, transgression, and ritual practice were articulated, codified, and lived at the intersection of religious communities, local magistrates’ courts, and book culture, with particular attention to the circulation between doctrinal knowledge, legal mechanisms, and social practices. I work across a wide range of sources, including Buddhist, Daoist, and sectarian religious texts; legal codes and commentaries; judicial case files from local and central archives; narrative literature; local monographs; epigraphic inscriptions; spirit-writing revelations; the press; and large-scale digital corpora. Through these materials, I seek to reconstruct the co-production of religious authority and legal order in late imperial China. More broadly, my work explores the long-term relationships among religion, law, literature, medicine, and environment across Sinophone societies.

Articles à comité de lecture

• Zheng, Qijun. 2025. The Return of Cranes: Migratory Birds, Local Cults and Ecological Governance in China. Religions 16, no. 11: 1419. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16111419
• Zheng, Qijun. 2025. From Heresy to Orthodoxy: Apocrypha and Canonization in Chinese Buddhism – the Case of theConsecration Sūtra (Guanding Jing 灌頂經). Studies in Chinese Religions, November, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/23729988.2025.2565895
• Zheng, Qijun. 2025. Making Maoshan Great Again: Religious Rhetoric and Popular Mobilisation from Late Qing to Republican China (1864–1937). Religions 16, no. 1: 97. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16010097
• Zheng, Qijun. 2024. Divine Medicine: Healing and Charity Through Spirit‐Writing in China. Religions 15: 1303. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15111303
• Zheng, Qijun. 2024. Five Entry Points of using CRTA as Research Roadmap. FROGBEAR Project (The University of British Columbia, Canada) Working Paper. Open Access: https://frogbear.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Zheng_QJ_Five-Entry-Points.pdf
• Zheng, Qijun. 2023. Report on the 2023 Chinese Religious Text Authority (CRTA) workshop. Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies News Blog. Open Access: https://cjbuddhist.wordpress.com/2023/06/11/report-on-the-2023-chinese-religious-text-authority-crta-workshop1/

Communications scientifiques :

• [39] « Singing Nuns: the Revival of Quanzhen Daoism by Women in Contemporary China » for a double panel titled « Career Paths of Religious Elites: Education and Institutional Affiliations across Chinese Religions », 26th Biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) organized by the EACS in collaboration with the Department of Asian and North African Studies (DSAAM) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, from 21 to 25 July 2026.
• [38] « From Tears to Tonsure: Widowhood, World-Disgust, and Women’s Paths to Renunciation in Late Imperial China », 2026 UK Association for Buddhist Studies (UKABS)/European meeting of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS) conference on the theme of « Buddhism and Emotion », The Edinburgh Centre for Buddhist Studies, New College, University of Edinburgh, 24th-26th June 2026.
• [37] « From West Lake to the Chinese Diaspora: Jigong and the Making of Modern « Hangzhou Buddhism », International symposium « A Buddhist Heaven on Earth: Hangzhou Buddhism and Its Historical Significance, » organized by the Center for Buddhist Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, College of Humanities, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, April 24-25, 2026.
• [36] « Spirit-written Texts from Mohammad and Jesus », Vincent Goossaert’s Graduate Workshop, EPHE, Paris, 19 January 2026.
• [35] “Guanyin: The Religious Ascension of a Celibate Maiden in Late Imperial China”, International Conference on Ming-Qing Studies (2025中研院明清研究國際學術研討會), Academia Sinica, Taipei, December 10-12, 2025.
• [34] “When a Towel Factory Meets the New Gospel of Health: Intercultural Acquisition of Fasting Knowledge and Practices in Modern China”, International Conference: Intercultural Knowledge Transfer in (Transregional) Asian Religious Contexts, Institute of Sinology and East Asian Studies, Institute for Missiology and the Study of Theologies Beyond Europe In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence « Religion and Politics » and Asian Studies Centre, 13^th – 15^th November 2025, Universität Münster, Germany.
• [33] Panel Organizer for « Margins, Mountains and Islands: Writing the Non-Human from Strange Places in Sinosphere Narrative Traditions », with individual paper « Animating the Mountain: How Evolving Narrative Stories Construct Divine Agency at the Daoist Mountain Maoshan », « Humains et non-humains : comparer entre Chine, Corée, Japon et Vietnam » 17 et 18 October 2025 à l’ENS Lyon.
• [32] « La « nonchalance » dans un temple taoïste de Huzhou [le Temple de l’Ancienne Fleur de Prunier (Gu Meihua Guan 古梅花觀) au Mont Jingai 金盖山]: émotions, silence et retrait», « Assises de l’Anthropologie Française des Mondes Chinois » (AAFMC), Troisième édition, colloque à l’Institut National des Langues et des Civilisations Orientales (INALCO, Paris), 17-19 Septembre 2025.
• [31] “Guanyin: The Religious Ascension of a Celibate Maiden in Late Imperial China” for “Transformations and Transmission: Local Practices and Popular Beliefs in Buddhism and Chinese Religions”, 2025 Cambridge Graduate Student Conference on East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, 21th–22th August, 2025.
• [30] “Towels, Texts, and Temples: Three Friends Industrial Company (三友實業社) in the Nexus of Commerce and Religious Publishing in 1930s Shanghai”, International Conference « Production and Distribution of Buddhist and Other Religious Texts in Chinese Societies », Inalco, Paris, France, July 8-11, 2025.
• [29] Summer School « The Eighth Glorisun International Intensive Program on Buddhist Studies», Centre d’études interdisciplinaires sur le bouddhisme (CEIB) and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco), Paris, France, July 5 – July 15, 2025.
• [28] Doctoral school “Buddhist Material Culture”, Ghent University, June 26 – July 1, 2025.
• [27] “Echoes of Emancipation: A Century of Women’s Voices, Gender Dynamics and Religious Authority at Maoshan in China (1912-2012)” in “Voicing Gender in China”, Fourth Conference of the Academic Network on Gender Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 17-18 June 2025.
• [26] “Noah’s Ark from the Middle Kingdom: Armand David’s (1826-1900) Missionary-Scientific Nexus and the Colonial Epistemology on Chinese Beasts”, Animals and Empire – Provenance Research as a Method for Global Histories Workshop, Research Center Hamburg’s (Post-)Colonial Legacy, University of Hamburg, 20-21 March 2025.
• [25] “Map is not Territory: On Fengshui and Sacred Sites”, Vincent Goossaert’s Graduate Workshop, EPHE, Paris, 17 February 2025.
• [24] “Tuibei tu (推背圖), the Chinese Tarot: Illustrations and Political Prophecy in Late Imperial China,” International Conference: “Illustration as a Mode of Commentary in Chinese Textual Traditions”, Paris (France), 20–22 November 2024.
• [23] “Portraits of Power: The Figurative Representations of the Three Mao Lords in China,” International Conference: Image(s) and Religion(s): Figurative Expressions of the Religious, University of Strasbourg (France), 30–31 October 2024.
• [22] International Summer Seminar: From Qing dynasty to Republican China: continuities and ruptures, « La Vieille Perrotine », Saint-Pierre d’Oléron (France), 8-14 September 2024.
• [21] “Daoist Textual Innovation and the Resilience of Maoshan Pilgrimage in Republican China,” 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Tallinn University (Estonia), 27–30 August 2024.
• [20] “Sacred Seals: Daoist Ritual Sigillation in Maoshan,” 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Tallinn University (Estonia), 27–30 August 2024.
• [19] “Reciprocal Enrichment to Mutual Flourishing: Indigenous Practices and Buddhist Apocrypha in Medieval China,” 2024 FROGBEAR Wutai International and Intensive Program on Buddhist Studies, Great Sage Bamboo Monastery, Mount Wutai (Shanxi, China), 7–15 August 2024.
• [18] “Daoist Gods Explaining Buddhist Texts: Buddhist Exegesis through Spirit-Writing in Qing China,” Illuminating the Sacred Word – Translation, Commentary, and Exegesis in the Buddhist World and Beyond, A Multidisciplinary Conference in Memory of Stefano Zacchetti (1968-2020), Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford (UK), 21–22 June 2024.
• [17] “Five Entry Points of Using CRTA as Research Roadmap,” From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection, The University of British Columbia (Canada) (Webinar), 21 April 2024.
• [16] “Study on the Buddhist contemplation sūtras using TACL tool”, Intensive seminar on Digital Humanities and their Applications in Buddhist Studies, Numata Center, Asien-Afrika-Institut University of Hamburg, March 14–16, 2024.
• [15] “Scripture, Litany and Precious Scroll of Three Mao Lords”, Vincent Goossaert’s Graduate Workshop, EPHE, Paris, 15 January 2024.
• [14] “Temple and Mountain Gazetteers on CRTA,” CRTA Workshops (FROGBEAR), University of British Columbia (Canada), Paris (France), 4–6 January 2024.
• [13] “Sacred Seals: A Comparative Study of Pilgrimages to Maoshan (China) and Kumano Kodo (Japan),” Colloquium ‘Chine, Corée, Japon: Comparaison(s),’ Campus Condorcet Aubervilliers (France), 29–30 September 2023.
• [12] 2023 Glorisun International and Intensive Program on Buddhist Studies with Peking University, Zhejiang (China), 9–22 August 2023.
• [11] “Divine Prescriptions: Healing and Philanthropy through Spirit-Writing by Lay Buddhists in Republican China,” “Buddhist Medical Sciences” panel during the “Buddhism, Science and Technology” conference at the “Inaugural Forum on Buddhism and Shared Future of Humanity”, Hong Kong University, 9-11 August 2023.
• [10] “The Quest for Longevity in Medieval Jiangnan: Pilgrims, Refugees and the Invention of Rituals and Sacred Spaces,” Currents: Local Practices and Popular Beliefs in Buddhism, Cambridge Graduate Student Conference on East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge (UK), 6–7 July 2023.
• [9] “Pèlerinage au Maoshan : Changements sociaux et pratiques religieuses dans la Chine républicaine (1912-1937)”, Master’s Thesis Defense, EPHE, Paris, 14 June 2023.
• [8] “La main invisible de Jigong: Reconstruction of Taoist Monasteries by Inspired Writing Groups in Modern China,” Conference “Décrire le local: monographies, archives et cartes,” Institut d’Asie orientale, ENS Lyon (France), 17 May 2023.
• [7] “The Daoist Persona of Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮: An Investigation of Spirit-Written Texts and Prognostic Methods,” Sichuan Religions Online Graduate Symposium ‘Mapping Religious Diversity in Modern Sichuan,’ Webinar, 6–7 May 2023.
• [6] “Spirit-Written Texts by Zhuge Liang”, Vincent Goossaert’s Graduate Workshop, EPHE, Paris, 17 April 2023.
• [5] “The 1616 stele from Qianyuanguan, Maoshan”, Vincent Goossaert’s Graduate Workshop, EPHE, Paris, 13 February 2023.
• [4] “Mad Monk Building Shrines: Reconstruction of Yuxuguan (玉虛觀) by Jishenghui 濟生會, 1936,” CRTA Workshops (FROGBEAR), University of British Columbia (Canada), Paris (France), 5–8 January 2023.
• [3] “Immortals, Storytellers, and Pilgrims: Two Thousand Years of Maoshan Pilgrimage in China,” 24th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Olomouc (Czech Republic), 24–27 August 2022
• [2] “Revelation in Taoism: Authority, Authenticity, and Analogy,” 22nd International Conference of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Shanghai (China) (Webinar), 27–30 June 2022.
• [1] “Chinese Religious Text Authority”(CRTA) Workshops, FROGBEAR (From the Ground Up – Buddhism and East Asian Religions), University of British Columbia (Canada), Paris (France), May 2022.