I am a DPhil student in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies under the supervision of Professor Henrietta Harrison. I completed an MPhil in intellectual history with distinction at St Antony’s College, Oxford, where I was a Swire Scholar. Prior to that, I read history and politics at the University of Hong Kong on a Foundation Scholarship, obtaining a BSocSc with first-class honours. My research interests lie at the intersection of theology and political thought in the twentieth century, and the transmission of religious ideas between East and West. My DPhil is supported by the Rhodes Scholarship.
DPhil topic
My DPhil thesis will be an intellectual history of five left-wing Protestant thinkers in Republican China. It will argue that left-wing Chinese Christian thinkers were not just receptive members in a global intellectual community, but active and conscientious contributors to its progress. My thesis will build on existing work in the history of Chinese Christianity that emphasises cross-cultural commonalities, yet reorient scholarly attention to the intellectual collaborations and personal travels of individual thinkers. It will also introduce an understudied topic to Anglophone histories of Chinese Christianity
