Peng Liu

Field: Chinese Literature
Advisor: Shang Wei
Email: pl2411@columbia.edu

Peng is a Ph.D. candidate in late imperial Chinese literature. His dissertation examines the crucial role of Chinese vernacular fiction in popularizing religious symbols that were otherwise marginalized or forgotten. Besides his dissertation project, he has also paid attention to the revival of Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century when Chinese intellectuals traveled to the West and propagated Buddhist ideas on the world stage.