Dr. Choo is Associate Professor of Chinese History and Religion at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, USA. She is a historian who specializes in the Chinese Middle Ages (200–1000 CE) and East Asian Religions. She received her doctorate from Princeton University in 2009.
Dr. Choo’s research focuses on cultural and religious practices related to childbearing, death, and commemoration, as well as women’s acquisition and exercise of personal agency in everyday life. She is currently working on two projects. The first examines a Buddho-Daoist reproductive soteriology, showing how religious discourses on women’s salvation reflected evolving notions of filial piety and women’s agency. The second investigates how medieval Chinese discourses on fate shaped the interpretation and characterization of women’s lives as represented in entombed epitaph inscriptions.
