Dear Colleagues,
We are currently seeking a historian of Republican China to join us as a presenter for our proposed panel, titled Global Networks of Knowledge Creation in Republican Chinese Christianity. We are also looking for colleagues who might be interested in serving as our discussant. If interested, please write to duanran.feng@queens.ox.ac.uk, ideally with one or two sentences on the topic you wish to present. The profiles of the current three panellists are listed below for your reference.
All best wishes,
Duanran Feng (University of Oxford)
Dr Li Qiang is an assistant researcher at the Institute of Religious Studies of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. The title of his paper is "From Transplantation to Integration: The globalisation and localisation of Catholic Marian Shrines in Jiangnan Region (1868-1946)". This paper will focus on the development of several Pilgrim sites in Jiangnan Region, such as Sheshan, Langshan, Tangmuqiao, Qingyang, etc., and observe local Catholics' social identities influenced by their religious faiths and practices during the process of Pilgrimage.
Lingshu Liu is a doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta in Canada, working with Ryan Dunch. Her paper will consider the production and circulation of Chinese Christian posters. It will answer the question of how Christians in the UK and the US transported money, equipment, and images to China.
Duanran Feng is a doctoral candidate and Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford, supervised by Henrietta Harrison. His paper will be on the ecclesiology of Bao Guanglin, the protestant church manager in Beijing who converted Lao She to Christianity. His paper will focus on how Bao's ideas on the nature and structure of the Church developed from his early studies in London and from the challenges Chinese churches faced when gaining independence from protestant missions.