Past Member
Raoul Birnbaum
Funding provided by the Patrons’ Endowment Fund
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Buddhist Studies
From
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Raoul Birnbaum is preparing a study of a significant cultural figure of modern China who became a Buddhist monk at mid-life. A granular study of Hongyi’s life (1880–1942) opens up views of intersecting cultural spheres within China’s modernity, and it considers how one individual chose to navigate his way through internal and external complexities.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Fall
Degrees
Columbia University
Ph.D.
1976