Tse Man Him Martin is a PhD student (starting in Jan. 2022) at the Asian Religious Connections research cluster of the Institute, awarded as HKU Presidential PhD Scholar, under the supervision of Prof. David A. Palmer. He has been working with Prof. Palmer as Research Assistant, Assistant Lecturer and MPhil student in the HKIHSS since 2014 and is currently writing a book together with him on a Daoist/Buddhist ritual tradition in Yingde, northern Guangdong, China. His PhD research is an ethnographic and textual study of the Daoist ordination rituals among the Lanten Yao in Laos, which attempts to reveal the articulation of the relationship between the Chinese core and ethnic periphery formulated by the Lanten Yao people in their rituals and religious texts. Taking up the research initiative set out by the team, Martin has been coordinating the textual research tasks and is developing a new research approach of “textual anthropology” to unpack the social structures embedded in the Lanten Yao texts (for more information about the research of Yao Dao Project, please see yaodao.hku.hk).

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