“Harmony in Diversity”: A Compartmentalist Approach to the Three Teachings in Mulianxi

XIAOHUAN ZHAO received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He had taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland and Otago in New Zealand before joining the University of Sydney in Australia, where he is Associate Professor of Chinese Literary and Theatre Studies. He publishes extensively in the fields of Chinese literature, culture, and theatre with a specialist focus on ritual, religion, and theatre. His publications appear in T'oung Pao, Asian Theatre Journal, TDR/The Drama Review, and Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft, among others. His most recent book is Drama, Fiction and Folk Beliefs (Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2018). His two-volume book on Chinese theatre history is forthcoming from Routledge in 2021.