Scott Pacey, BSc, BAS (Hons) (ANU), PhD (ANU)

Associate Lecturer, School of Culture, History & Language

Email: scott.pacey@anu.edu.au

Biographical statement

I studied psychology, Asian religions and Chinese at the ANU, and completed my doctoral thesis after periods spent at universities and research centres in Taiwan (National Chengchi University, National Taiwan University and the Center for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library). My doctoral thesis was concerned with Buddhist responses to the intellectual landscapes of China and Taiwan in the twentieth century. My present research is focused on the engagement of republican-era intellectuals with Yogācāra Buddhism.

Research interests

Chinese intellectual history; Chinese religion and modernity; Buddhism in contemporary China; the engagement of Chinese Buddhism with non-Buddhist religious and ideological systems; inter-religious engagement; Warring States period philosophy and contemporary thought; Chinese strategic philosophy.

Key publications

• "A Buddhism for the Human World: Interpretations of Renjian Fojiao in Contemporary Taiwan." Asian Studies Review 29 (March 2005): 61-77.
• Xingshi Jiangjun (Shengyan). "Further Discussion of the Similarities and Differences between Buddhism and Christianity" (Zai lun Fojiao he Jidujiao de tongyi). Translated by Scott Pacey. In Jesus Beyond Christianity: The Classic Texts, 250-257. Edited by Gregory A. Barker and Stephen E. Gregg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Career highlights

Visiting scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taipei (July-December, 2006); exchange scholar in the Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University (2005); studies at the Chinese Language Center, National Chengchi University (2001-2003).