Having grown up in mainland China, I committed myself from youth to the study of Chinese culture. After seven years of training in Chinese language and literature at Beijing University, I went to the U.S. in 1999 to pursue a doctoral degree at the U
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Having grown up in mainland China, I committed myself from youth to the study of Chinese culture. After seven years of training in Chinese language and literature at Beijing University, I went to the U.S. in 1999 to pursue a doctoral degree at the University of Southern California. I obtained the PhD degree in 2006 and now am teaching at the University of Hong Kong. I have broad interests in Chinese culture, but my research interests concentrate on Sino-Western exchanges in religious, literary, scientific, and ritual aspects. By examining the differences and similarities between China and West and the strategies employed by Catholic missionaries and Confucians, I hope to develop my critical thinking on contacts between cultures in history, and demonstrate my theory of dialogic hybridization for people of different ethnical, religious, and cultural backgrounds to better understand, communicate with each other.
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