Living with China's Own Heritage: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the History of Christianity in China.
Along with the rapid economic growth and political reforms of the past three decades in China, there also comes increased openness and progress in the country's academy for the study of the history of Christianity in China. This presentation will review the growth of the field during this period by highlighting the accomplishments of Chinese scholars. It will also discuss the latest directions scholars have taken in different disciplines, and some of the challenges that both Chinese and Western scholars are facing in this field today in the context of Chinese-Western Cultural Exchange.
Bio Sketch:
Xiaoxin WU is the Director of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. He is the editor of Encounters and Dialogues: Changing Perspectives on Chinese-Western Cultural Exchanges from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries (2005) and Christianity in China: A Scholars' Guide to Resources in the Libraries and Archives of the United States, Second Edition (2009).
Currently, he also serves as the Principal Investigator of a three-year grant funded educational and research project "Narratives from the Hinterland" in China by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Co-sponsors: Department of Comparative Studies, OSU Humanities Institute, Center for the Study of Religion, and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant
