Events
The 5th Lecture Series by AS Academicians : "Empires and Christianity: the Christian Mission in Late Imperial China"
20 Jun 2016
Welcoming Refreshment:15:30-16:00Lecture Time:16:00-17:30
220, Fung King Hey Building
Prof. Hsia Po Chia
Professor Hsia Po-Chia from Humanities and Social Science was born in Hong Kong in 1955. Prof. Hsia is currently an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History in Pennsylvania State University. He has been teaching in various distinguished institutions in the United States, including New York University, University of Massachusetts, Cornell University and Columbia University. His research has focused on history of the Protestant Reformation, Catholic Renewal, anti-Semitism, and the encounter between Europe and Asia. Prof. Hsia was educated in Hong Kong during his childhood. He attained his Master degree in History from Harvard university in 1978 and Doctoral degree in History from Yale University in 1982. His academic achievement was recognized by various awards, with Academician of Academia Sinica being conferred in 2000. He has also published more than 20 books and nearly 150 articles. Instead of solely English, the research languages of Prof. Hsia also include Latin, Greek, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese.
Tel: 3943 8728
Online registration : http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/oalc/AS_2016_1/
Looking back from the catastrophe of the Boxer Uprising, in which Chinese and Christian civilizations seemed to be on a course of collision, this lecture returns to the origins, when Jesuit missionaries encountered the Ming and Qing Empires on a very different basis. Instead of serving as vanguards of western imperialism, Jesuit missionaries in the 17th and 18th centuries served the Chinese imperial state as diplomats, astronomers, cartographers, painters, and musicians. The transformation of that first Christian mission into the second, from cultural encounter to imperialist domination, is the subject of this presentation.
