**About the Editor**

#### **Jinhua Jia**

Jinhua Jia (Prof. Dr.), who received her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder, is Adjunct Professor of the University of Macau, Research Professor of Wuhan University, and Chair Professor of Yangzhou University. Prof. Jia holds membership of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), fellowship of the National Humanities Center (USA), and research associateship of the Harvard Divinity School, and she has taught at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the City University of Hong Kong, and Xiamen University. Her research interests include traditional Chinese religion, thought, literature, and women and gender studies. She is the author of a number of books and articles, including *From Ritual Culture to Classical Confucianism* (in Chinese, Oriental Publication Center 2020); *Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China* (Columbia University Press 2018); *Study on Classical Chan Buddhism* (in Chinese or Japanese, Oxford University Press 2010, Shanghai People's Press 2013, Kyuko Shoin 2018); ¯ *The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Century China* (State University of New York Press 2006); and S*tudy on the Collections of Gathering and Groups of Poets in the Tang Dynasty* (in Chinese, Peking University Press 2001/2015). Prof. Jia has also edited/coedited a number of books, including *Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy* (University of Hawaii Press 2018); *Buddhism and the Chinese Tradition* (in Chinese, Shanghai People's Publishing 2017); and *Gendering Chinese Religion: Subject, Identity, and Body* (State University of New York Press 2014).
