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Education and Career
Department of History, Pace University, New York, New York
Associate Professor, 2004–Present
Assistant Professor, 2001–2004
Co-Director of East Asian Studies Program, 2001–Present
Department of History, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 2000–2001
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, England
Scouloudi Research Fellow, 1999–2000
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, England
Ph.D. in History, 2000
M.A. in African and Asian History, 1994
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, England
B.A. Upper Second Class Honors in Medieval and Modern History, 1993
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Honors
Pollard Prize for the Best Paper presented at the Imperial History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, England, 2000
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Publications
Monograph and Edited Work
The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860–1900 (New York and London: Routledge Press, 2003). xxxvi + 207 pp.
(Edited with Ronald K. Frank) Asia Pacific: Perspectives – Special Issue on Church, State, and Community in East Asia 5, no.1 (December 2004): 1–3 (Center for Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco).
http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/research/perspectives/app_v5n1.html
Journal Articles
“Watchman Nee and the Little Flock Movement in Maoist China.” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 74, no.1 (March 2005): 68–96.
“God’s Villages: Christian Communities in Late-Nineteenth-Century South China.” Journal of Ritual Studies – Special Issue on Asian Ritual Systems: Syncretisms and Ruptures 19, no.1 (2005): 31–46.
“Teaching Nonviolence in Times of War.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 9, no.2 (Summer 2005): 240–245.
“(Co-authored with Ronald K. Frank) Service-Learning in Mongolia.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 9, no.1 (Spring 2005): 145–149.
“Church, State, and Community in East Asia: An Introduction.” Asia Pacific: Perspectives – Special Issue on Church, State, and Community in East Asia 5, no.1 (December 2004): 1–3.
http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/research/perspectives/app_v5n1.html
“A Tangled Web: The United States, China, and Inter-Korean Relations.” The Indian Journal of Asian Affairs 17, no.1 (June 2004): 1–34.
“Testing Missionary Archives against Congregational Histories: Mapping Christian Communities in South China.” Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research 32, no.4 (2003): 361–77.
“The Overseas Chinese Networks and Early Baptist Missionary Movement across the South China Sea.” The Historian: A Journal of History 63, no.4 (Summer 2001): 752–68.
“The Lord of Heaven versus Jesus Christ: Christian Sectarian Violence in Late-Nineteenth-Century South China.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique – Special Issue on Sub-Imperialism 8, no.1 (Spring 2000): 77–99.
“Conversion or Protection? Christian Sectarian Violence in Late-Nineteenth-Century Southern China.” Currents in World Christianity Position Paper no.110 (January 2000): 37pp. (Cambridge, England: Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University).
“Christian Communities, Church Property, and Local Resource Conflicts in Late-Nineteenth-Century Guangdong, South China.” Ching Feng: A Journal on Christianity and Chinese Religion and Culture 41, no.1 (March 1998): 41–66.
“Contested Countryside: Property Disputes between Christian and Non-Christian Village Communities in Guangdong Province in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Leeds East Asia Paper no.44 (1997): 39pp. (Leeds, England: Department of East Asian Studies, Leeds University).
Journal Articles in Chinese
“清代中西交流：宗教与文化 [The Sino-Western Encounter in the Qing Dynasty: Religion and Culture].”《清史譯叢》 [Qing History Overseas Research], no.2, (June 2005): 65–76 (Beijing, China: Institute of Qing History, People’s University).
“西方研究中國基督教歷史的新方向 [Recent Approaches to the Study of Chinese Christianity in the West].”《歷史人類學學刋》[Journal of History and Anthropology] 2, no.2 (October 2004): 131–142 (Hong Kong: South China Research Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).
“十九世纪中期 (1835–1860) 华人浸信会教民的曼谷、香港、潮州跨国网络 [The Chinese Baptist Transnational Networks of Bangkok-Hong Kong-Chaozhou in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, 1835–1860].”《东南学术》 [Southeast Academic Research: Journal of the Fujian Academy of Social Sciences], no.1 (January 2002): 42–49 (Fuzhou, China: Fujian Academy of Social Sciences).
“關於十九世紀末期廣東潮汕地區基督教新教歷史之英美檔案資料 [A Survey of the British and American Archival Materials on Protestant Christianity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Chaozhou, Guangdong Province].”《華南研究資料中心通訊》 [The South China Research Resource Station Newsletter], no.25 (15 October 2001): 10–17 (Hong Kong: South China Research Centre, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).
[Forthcoming] “清代社会史：权力、动乱与网络 [Qing Social History: Power, Violence, and Networks].” 《清史譯叢》[Qing History Overseas Research] (Beijing, China: Institute of Qing History, People’s University).
Book Chapters
“God’s Villages: Christian Communities in Late-Nineteenth-Century South China.” In Asian Ritual Systems: Syncretisms and Ruptures, edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2006).
“The Bush Administration and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Pursuit of Global Hegemony.” In Evaluation of the Bush Administration, edited by Yone Sugita (Tokyo, Japan: Small World Co., 2004), 28pp.
“Christian God and Hostile Communities: Collective Violence in Northeast Guangdong.” In Dragons, Tigers and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China, edited by Robert James Antony and Jane Kate Leonard (Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2002), 213–43.
[Forthcoming] “God’s Villages: Conversion and Converts in South China (1860–1900).” In Conversion and Converts, edited by Kathleen L. Lodwick (Norwalk, CT: East Bridge Books).
Encyclopedia Entries
“605–610 A.D. Building of the Grand Canal” and “1275 A.D. Nestorian Archbishopric Is Founded in Beijing.” In Great Events from History: The Middle Ages, 477–1453, edited by Leslie Ellen Jones (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2004): 64–66 and 676–678.
[Forthcoming] “Korean War Brides.” In Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, edited by Huping Ling and Allan W. Austin (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe).
[Forthcoming] “Hong Xiuquan,” “Sun Yat-sen,” and “The Three-Self Patriotic Movement.” In Encyclopedia of Christians in Politics, edited by Roy P. Domenico (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group).
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