• Highest Degree: Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History, University of Iowa
• Previous Position: Professor of Church History and Missiology
• Research Interests: Chinese Church History, Global Christianity
• Primary Teaching Areas: Chinese Church History, History of Missions, Global Christianity, Church History, Introduction to Missiology
• Special Topics & Seminars: Missions, Evangelism, Chinese Church History, Global Christianity, Discipleship (Matthew 5–7: The Sermon on the Mount), Gospel of John, Acts
• Languages: English, Mandarin

Selected Publications

• 2022 Expanding the Boundaries: 23 People Who Built the Christian Church. Tien Dao Publishing House.
• 2021 Darkest before the Dawn: A Brief History of the Rise of Christianity in China. Pickwick Publications.
• 2014 “Wang Mingdao and His Theology of Spirituality,” in Speaking of the Spirit: Essays Commemorating Logos Evangelical Seminary 25th Anniversary, eds. Chloe Sun and Ekron Chen. Kowloon: Tien Dao Publishing House.
• 2011 After Imperialism: Christian Identity in China and the Global South, eds. Richard R. Cook and David W. Pao. Pickwick Publications.
• 2011 “Overcoming Missions Guilt: Robert Morrison, Liang Fa and the Opium Wars,” in After Imperialism: Christian Identity in China and the Global South. Pickwick Publications.
• 2008 “The Noble Vocation of the Missions Historian: An Appeal to Young Seminarians and Future Scholars.” CGST Journal, No. 45, July 2008, 73–89.
• 2008 “The Great Commission in Asia,” in The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Missions, eds. Martin I. Klauber and Scott M. Manetsch. Nashville: B&H Publishing, 149–163.
• 2007 “Fundamentalism and Mission,” in Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries, ed. Jonathan J. Bonk. New York: Routledge.
• 2007 “Wang Mingdao and the Evolution of Contextualized Chinese Churches,” in Contextualization of Christianity in China: An Evaluation in Modern Perspective, ed. Peter Chen-Main Wang. Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica.
• 2005 “Behind China’s Closed Doors: Newly Confident House Churches Open Themselves up to World.” Christianity Today, Vol. 49, No. 2, February 2005, 70–73.
• 1995 “Windows of Opportunity in China.” Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 1, January 1995, 22–30.
• 1992 “Awakening and Taiwan: Instruction from History on Revitalizing the Church.” Taiwan Mission Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1992, 13–18.

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