Chinese Theology Books Podcast

Chinese Theology Books Podcast
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In the Chinese Theology Books Podcast, Chloë Starr interviews academics and scholars of Chinese Christianity from around the world about recent books they have written. The discussions in this first series range from early Chinese philosophy to Christian participation in war, and from the nature of salvation to the nature of Chinese congregations in contemporary Britain.

Episodes

  1. 06/18/2025

    Stephanie Wong, Making Catholicism Chinese

    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.

    30 min

  2. 06/18/2025

    Peng Yin, Persisting in the Good

    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.

    32 min

  3. 06/18/2025

    Alex Chow, Chinese Heritage in British Christianity

    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.

    27 min

  4. 06/18/2025

    Naomi Thurston, Moltmann in China

    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.

    27 min

  5. 06/18/2025

    Jesse Sun, Salvation and Revolution

    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.

    35 min

  6. 09/23/2025

    Joseph W. Ho, Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China

    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 photographs) changes how we see the self and other, the cultural exchange of transnational images also played a role in Sino-US relations.

    29 min

  7. 10/22/2025

    Ji Li, At the Frontier of God’s Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China

    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 and especially his experience of the weeks-long siege of Santaizi church by the Boxer Rebels in 1900, as well as his depictions of the lives and beliefs of local Catholics.

    29 min
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In the Chinese Theology Books Podcast, Chloë Starr interviews academics and scholars of Chinese Christianity from around the world about recent books they have written. The discussions in this first series range from early Chinese philosophy to Christian participation in war, and from the nature of salvation to the nature of Chinese congregations in contemporary Britain.

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