Chinese Theology Books Podcast

In this episode, Ji Li discusses her book, At the Frontier of God’s Empire with Chloë Starr. The book tells the story of French missionary Alfred Caubrière who before his murder in 1948 left behind some 800 letters to his family, as well as 13 volumes of transcripts of everyday conversations in the local dialect among villagers in Santaizi, Manchuria. The episode discusses the life of Caubrière an...

In this episode, Joseph Ho discusses his book, Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China with Chloë Starr. The conversation ranges from camera technology in the interwar years to the documentation of disease in mission hospitals and circulation of missionary films documenting Japanese war crimes. If the creation of new types of images (such as baptism p...

In this episode Jesse Zixi Sun discusses his new book, Salvation and Revolution: A Twentieth Century Odyssey of the Chinese Protestant Mind, with Chloë Starr. They discuss the relationship between national modernization and religious salvation in China, and the disproportionate civic and social engagement of Christian intellectuals in national life in the early twentieth century.

In this episode Naomi Thurston discusses her new book, Moltmann in China: Reception and Dialogue, with Chloë Starr. They discuss the reception of Moltmann’s theology—from despair and hope to eco-theology—among Chinese scholars, and Moltmann’s own forays into comparative work with his studies of the Daodejing.

In this episode Alex Chow discusses his new edited book, Chinese Heritage in British Christianity: more than foreigners, with Chloë Starr. They talk about the history of the Chinese church in the UK, Chinese heritage in British Christianity, and the diversity of Chinese-speaking congregations today.

In this episode Peng Yin discusses his new book, Persisting in the Good: Thomas Aquinas and early Chinese Ethics, with Chloë Starr. They talk about moral development and what it means to be good in the thinking Mencius, Xunzi and Laozi—and how these interact with Aquinas’ thought, as well as historic European readings of Chinese philosophy.

In this episode, Stephanie Wong discusses her new book, Making Catholicism Chinese: The Catholic Church in a Modernizing China, with Chloë Starr. The conversation focuses on the life and work of the Lazarist priest-turned-Chinese citizen, Vincent Lebbe, and his work for church indigenization in the early twentieth century.