Xi Lian

• Assistant Professor of History
• Hanover College
• Hanover, IN 47243-0890
• (812)866-7290
• Email: lian@hanover.edu

• B.A. Fujian Normal University, 1982
• M.A. Fujian Normal University, 1987
• Ph.D. SUNY-Albany, 1993

• Xi Lian came to Hanover College in 1996, after teaching at SUNY-Albany and at Union College. He teaches Foundations of the Modern Age (HIS 111), Eurasia: Science and the Humanities (ID 113), History of China (HIS 266), History of Japan (HIS 267), Modern China (HIS 362), Modern Japan (HIS 363), Traditional China (HIS 364), and Historical Research (HIS 371). He also teaches a spring term course, Christianity in China (HIS 260) in the People's Republic of China.

• Xi Lian is the author of The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932 (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press). He is currently working on a book on Christians in twentieth-century China.

Last Updated: September 22, 2000
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