Category: China

The Dictionary of Christian Biography in Asia Online Launch

On March 1, 2022, the DCBAsia team started a free online website -Dictionary of Christian Biography in Asia (dcbasia.org). They began by posting 56 stories of Malaysian and Singaporean heroes and heroines. They have another 120 stories which will be uploaded in weekly installments. The initial response has been overwhelming. Their soft launch is on […]

Chinese Theologies : Call for Papers Due March 7

Chinese Theology: Call for Papers 中国神学研讨会论文征集通告 The final conference in a series of three conferences on Chinese Theologies will be held at Yale Divinity School (New Haven, Connecticut) 1-3 June 2022 with the theme of “Academic and Diasporic theologies.” The conference is hybrid: paper-givers are welcome to come in person, but may also present online […]

Catholicism, Families, and Asian Societies ~ Feb. 10 & 11, 2022

The Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore is hosting this online conference from February 10 – 11, 2022. For more information and to register, visit the Asia Research Institute conference page.  To view the full program of events, download this file: Program_Catholicism-1.   This conference investigates how Catholic identities influence the composition […]

Ireland, Mayfield, and Menegon to Give Lectures for the Institute of Qing History at Renmin University of China

CGCM Associate Director Daryl Ireland, CHCD Project Director Alex Mayfield, and CGCM Faculty Associate Eugenio Menegon will each deliver a lecture for the Institute of Qing History at Renmin University of China. The Sino-Western Relations and Culture Exchange Series, No. 2 and No. 3 will take place between December 9th and 16th. For more information, […]

Revisiting East Asia through Mission Collections

Conference Panel on Missionary Archives: register for the Zoom meeting at this link. The event will be recorded and will be posted online later as well. See attached abstracts.   New England Regional Association for Asian Studies Meeting  Monday December 6, 2021, 10:30-11:45AM US EST (16:30-17:45 Central European Time; 23:30-24:45 China time; 24:30-1:45AM, Japan/Korea)  at Harvard […]

Prof. Anthony E. Clark to Lecture on “The Making of Jesuit Saints in Late Imperial China”

You are invited to attend a talk by Prof. Anthony E. Clark, Combe Trust Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Date:  Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 1:00-2:00 pm in Edinburgh, Scotland (5:00 am in Seattle/8:00 am in New York) Zoom Link:  https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81322391722 Passcode:  Vr8f3ew2 Title: The Theater of Canonization: The Making of Jesuit Saints in Late […]

China Historical Christian Database Receives Competitive NEH Grant

Drs. Daryl Ireland, Eugenio Menegon, and Alex Mayfield recently wrote a proposal to receive a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for continued development of the China Historical Christian Database. We are pleased to announce that their proposal was just accepted! The project was one of twenty projects chosen by […]