Notes on Contributors
Joanna Baradziej
is a PhD student at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research interests include women’s and gender history as well as the history of China and history of religion in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her PhD thesis explores the female identity of missionaries created during their education in the Women’s Missionary College in Edinburgh, it’s changes during their work and life in north-eastern China and female missionaries’ impact on local women.
Marilyn L. Bowman
is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. McGill-educated, her research and publications on individual differences in cognitive abilities and in response to extreme events provided the background for her study of the life of James Legge.
Alexander Chow
is Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and is co-director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity. He is co-editor of the journal Studies in World Christianity (Edinburgh University Press) and is editor of the Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities (University of Notre Dame Press). He is author of two books, most recently Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Gao Zhiqiang
completed his PhD in literature at Beijing Language and Culture University, and is assistant professor of Minzu University of China. His research interests include translation studies, Scriptural Reasoning, and Protestant mission to China.
Joachim Gentz
is Professor of Chinese and Chair of Chinese Philosophy and Religion at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests lie in the fields of Chinese philosophy and religions, text and commentary, ritual and divination, and theories of cultural and religious studies.
David Jasper
is Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Before this, he was Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow and Distinguished Overseas Professor in Renmin University of China, Beijing. He holds degrees from Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and Uppsala universities, and has published widely in the field of literature and theology. He has lectured widely in China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Christopher Legge
is the eldest son of the eldest son of James Legge. He is an Oxford University History graduate. He lives in London with Judy, his wife, and has two children, a son James and a daughter, Josephine, both now married. Christopher has had a long career in international business and runs his own company, James Marketing Services, that specialises in leadership, executive coaching and non-executive support.
Lauren F. Pfister
is Professor of the Religion and Philosophy Department of Hong Kong Baptist University. He has published widely on Qing Dynasty philosophy, Ruist-Christian dialogue, and hermeneutics, and including the important two-volume work on James Legge entitled Striving for ‘The Whole Duty of Man’ (Peter Lang, 2004).
David J. Reimer
is Academic Dean of the Faith Mission Bible College and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Divinity, University of St Andrews, having previously been Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies in the University of Edinburgh for twenty years. Prior to that he was a member of the Faculty of Theology in Oxford, where he did his doctoral studies. While his academic interests range widely, he works centrally on biblical theology and ethics.
Brian Stanley
is Professor of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. He read history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and stayed on in Cambridge for his PhD on the place of missionary enthusiasm in Victorian religion. He has taught in theological colleges and universities in London, Bristol, and Cambridge, and joined the University of Edinburgh in January 2009. Brian has written or edited eight books and numerous articles, mostly in the field of the history of Christian missions.
Yang Huilin
is Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies of Renmin University of China. His research interests include theological hermeneutics and interdisciplinary studies of religion and literature. He is the author of many works including China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture (Baylor University Press, 2014).
Zheng Shuhong
received a PhD from King’s College London, specializing in Neo-Confucianism, comparative philosophy and medieval theology, in particular Meister Eckhart. She is currently associate professor in the department of philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, and was previously a visiting fellow at Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany.