Events

China Humanities Seminar featuring John Kieschnick – MSG, Vegan Soap, Karma and Tofu: Chinese Vegetarianism in the Early 20th Century

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: John Kieschnick, Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies, Stanford University Drawing on newspapers, essays, memoirs, correspondence and Buddhist journals, this talk will outline the major trends in Chinese vegetarianism from 1900-1950, attempting to capture the diverse motivations, arguments and innovations in the anti-meat movement in China in the first half of […]