December 10-14, 2004
Chung Chi College Campus,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, P.R.China

The International Young Scholars' Symposium on "Christianity and Chinese Culture and Society"

The goal of this symposium was to provide young scholars with an opportunity to share and exchange ideas with other scholars in the field. At this symposium, 38 young scholars from China, England, and France engaged in discussions concerning Christianity in modern Chinese Culture and Society. They were addressed by three keynote speakers expert in the field.  

Abstracts of Keynote Presentations:
(Full versions will be coming soon)

• The Relationship Between Church-and-State: Another Approach to Studying Christianity in China
  by Prof. Peter Wang Chenmain, Ph.D.

• Christianity and the History and Society of Modern China: Changing Attitudes in Scholarly Approaches in East and West
  by Prof. R G Tiedemann, Ph.D.

• Letting People Tell their Own Story: Oral History and Research on Christianity in China
  by Prof. Jean-Paul Wiest, Ph.D.

For more information, please visit The Centre for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society.
Email:csrcs@cuhk.edu.hk
Tel: (852)2609-6498
Fax: (852)2603-6210

Co-sponsored by Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco
Centre for Study of Religion and Chinese Society, Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Join Professor Rule as he discusses early Jesuit encounters with indigenous religions and cultures in Asia, including special missions to tribal people in India— the Jesuit sannyasis, to the villages of minority peoples in rural China with sinologists and teachers of Sino-Christian meditation; and to Japan where the exponents of Zen Christianity have continued the Jesuit tradition.

Paul Rule is currently Honorary Associate in the History Department at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, where he retired as senior lecturer in history and religious studies in 2002, having taught there since 1973 as a specialist in Chinese history and religion, Aboriginal religion, peace studies, and modern Catholicism. Since 2001 Rule spends part of each year in residence at the USF Ricci Institute as EDS-Stewart Distinguished Fellow where he is spearheading a research project on the Chinese Rites Controversy.

The Charles W. Stewart Distinguished Lectureship was established at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim to honor the memory of the late Charles W. Stewart, former CEO of Blue Shield and a friend, benefactor, and board member of the Center and its Ricci Institute.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Reservations recommended; call the USF Center for the Pacific Rim at 415.422.6357.

Co-sponsored by the USF Center for the Pacific Rim and its Ricci Institute and the USF Jesuit Community.

For further inquiries, please contact:
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim
2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Tel 1-415-422-6401 · Fax 1-415-422-2291 · Email ricci@usfca.edu (top)