Xi Lian
- B.A. Fujian Normal University, 1982
- M.A. Fujian Normal University, 1987
- Doctor of Arts, State University of New York at Albany, 1993
- Xi Lian came to Hanover College in 1996, after teaching at SUNY-Albany and at Union College. He teaches History of China, History of Japan, Modern East Asia, Modern China, Eurasia-Modern Society, Traditional China, China and Christianity. He has also taught special spring-term courses in China and Japan.
- Xi Lian's research interest includes Christianity in China and the encounter between modern Chinese intellectuals and the West. He is the author of The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997) and Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China (Yale University Press, 2010).
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