Todd Klaiman

B.Sc., (UBC), M.A., (NTNU) (Taiwan), Ph.D., (CUHK) (Hong Kong)

Courses taught

ASIA 1100 Introducing Asia
ASIA 1311 Religions of East Asia
ASIA 3151 Gender in East Asia
ASIA 4499 Selected Topics in Asian Studies

Areas of Interest

My research interests include Buddhist modernities, Chinese diaspora and transnational religious networks, and late Imperial and modern Chinese histories.

Scholarly Work

“Stakeholder Relationships and the Production of Religious Space in Penang’s Chinese Community,” Saeculum, Vol. 71, February, 2021.
Kek Lok Monastery and Translocal Religiosity: The Emergence of Chinese Monastic Buddhism in Southeast Asia, 1876-1974. Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2021.
“Chinese Diglossia and the (Un-) Translatability of Literary Linguistic Variation,” New Voices in Translation Studies, 9: 1-19, 2013.