Paul R. Katz康豹

Style & Daoist names

Paul Katz

Period

Contemporary

Dates

1961 — ?

Role

HistorianResearch Fellow, Academia Sinica

Birthplace

United States

Life

Paul R. Katz, an American historian, is a distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, working on Chinese popular religion, Daoism and local society. He has written Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang (1995), Images of the Immortal: The Cult of Lü Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy (1999, an important study of Yongle Palace and the cult of Lü Dongbin), Religion in China and Its Modern Fate (2014), and Divine Justice: Religion and the Development of Chinese Legal Culture, among others, with an emphasis on ritual, epigraphy and local social history. The above is drawn from publicly available academic information.

Contributions & Influence

• Studied Yongle Palace and the cult of Lü Dongbin
• Studied the cult of Marshal Wen and plague-god ritual
• Studied Chinese religion and legal culture

Works

• Images of the Immortal
• Demon Hordes and Burning Boats
• Religion in China and Its Modern Fate
• Divine Justice