Notes on Contributors
François Barriquand works at the Seminary of the Catholic Institute of Paris (Séminaire des Carmes). He earned his doctorate in physics at the University Paris XI (1991) and his doctorate in theology at the Faculty of Theology of the Centre Sèvres (2020). He sojourned in China, especially in Hong Kong, between 2000 and 2011. He is the author or co-author of three volumes devoted to three main figures of the Catholic Mission in Sichuan during the 18th century: Jean Basset, Joachim de Martiliat, and André Ly (eds. Youfeng, resp. 2012, 2015, and 2015). He has contributed to the new Chinese translation of the New Testament published by the Claretian Press in 2014.
Jean Charbonnier is a French Catholic missionary and sinologist in the MEP. Ordained a priest in 1957, he started his mission work in Singapore in 1959. In the following 40 years, he has studied and worked in different places in Asia including Malaysia, Taiwan, China, and Singapore. In 1980, he was appointed director of the MEP China Service newly created at the MEP General Assembly. His numerous publications include Lââ¯interprétation de lââ¯histoire en Chine contemporaine (1978), Histoire des chrétiens de Chine (1992), and Les 120 martyrs de Chine (2000).
Yanrong Chen received her Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from the University of Leuven in Belgium and was a Luce Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Ricci Institute of the University of San Francisco. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach by focusing on the cultural contacts between the West and the East, especially the Chinese writings of Christian literature and their circulation across East Asia. She is the author of The Diffused Story of the Footwashing in John 13: A Textual Study of Bible Reception in Late Imperial China (Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2021).
Lina Guo is Professor of Literature in the Department of Chinese language and literature at Sun Yat-sen University, China. She conducts research on the history of Sino-French cultural relations, French sinology, French literature, and comparative literature. She publishes in both French and Chinese and is the author of Research on MEPâs Activities in Szechwan Province in the Mid-Qing Dynasty (Beijing: Xueyuan Press, 2012).
Zhijie Kang is Professor of History at the Academy of Macau, Jinan University, China. Her main area of research is Christian culture and the history of Chinese Christianity. Her numerous publications include Christianity along the Yangtze River (2006), The Vineyard of God: A Case Study of a Catholic Community in Northwest Wubei, 1636â2005 (2006), Christian Rites (2011), Godâs Bride: A Study of Chinese Catholic Virgins (2013), and ãä¸å天主æ財åç¶æ¿ç 究 (1582â1949) ã (2019).
Ji Li is Assistant Professor of History in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (China Studies) and the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of Hong Kong. She received her B.A. and M.A. at Peking University, China and her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, USA. Her research areas center on the social, cultural, and religious history of late imperial and modern China. She publishes in both English and Chinese and is the author of Godâs Little Daughters: Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015).
Matthieu Masson is a priest of the MEP and has lived in Hong Kong since 2009. He graduated from the National School of Architecture of Lille and received a Master of Theology at the Catholic Institute of Paris. His research focuses on Christian architecture in China. He also studies the history of the cathedral of Guangzhou and the Catholic missions in the Guangdong region.
Jean-Paul Wiest holds a Licentiate in Theology (1966) from the Jesuit Faculty of Theology in Egenhoven, Belgium, and a Ph.D. in Chinese History (1977) from the University of Washington, USA. His primary field of research is on the history of Sino-Western cultural and religious interactions. He has published extensively in English, French, and Chinese. His books include Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918â1955 (1988), The Catholic Church in Modern China (1993), ãæ·å²éºè·¡âæ£ç¦å¯ºå¤©ä¸»æå¢å°ã (2007), and Présence et influence du Père Lebbe dans la Chine dââ¯aujourdââ¯hui (2017).
Hongyan Xiang is Associate Professor at Colorado State University and a social and cultural historian of modern China. She received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include Christianity in modern China and Chinese-Western relations since the 18th century. Her current research studies the real estate empire of the MEP in south China from the late 19th to early 20th century.
Ernest P. Young is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. Born in 1932, Young spent his childhood in Brooklyn, New York, and Manchester, New Hampshire, supplemented by one year in England and two years at a school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Young received his BA (1954), MA (1958), and Ph.D. (1965) all from Harvard University. During this time, he spent two years as an instructor in English at Kumamoto University in Japan (1954â1956) and two years as special assistant to the American ambassador in Tokyo (1961â1963). He served as an assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College, 1965â1968, and joined the History Department at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1968 until his retirement in 2002. Although he began his graduate work in Japanese studies, Young became focused more on modern Chinese history, and his publications are mainly about China. In addition to various academic articles, he has published two books, The Presidency of Yuan Shih-kâai: Liberalism and Dictatorship in Early Republican China (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1977) and Ecclesiastical Colony: Chinaâs Catholic Church and the French Religious Protectorate (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Aidong Zhao is Professor of History at the School of History and Culture, Sichuan University, China. Her research areas center on Westernersâ activities and cultural exchange in the Tibetan areas of late imperial and modern China, and the history of Sino-Western communications. She publishes in both English and Chinese and is the author (co-authored with Xiaoling Zhu) of Far, Far Away in Remote Eastern Tibet: The Story of the American Doctor Albert Shelton and His Colleagues from the Disciples of Christ 1903â1950 (St. Louis: Lucas Park Books, 2014).
Qing Wu is Professor of History in the Institute of Chinese Culture and History at Jinan University, China. She received her Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and her research focuses on the history of cultural exchanges between the West and the East, the history of Hong Kong and Macau, and Chinese historical philology. She is the author of A Study of Bishop R.O. Hall in China (2017).