Visiting Scholars

HUANG Rui received his Ph.D. in management from Renmin University of China, Beijing, China in July 2007. His research interestes inlcude the study of human resource and family business. His recent studies are focused on entrepreneurship, human resource management and social capital. He has published several books and journal articles. In the past years, he has participated in five major projects and programs on human resouce management and social capital.

Yuting Wang received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA in May 2009. Upon graduation, she joined Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah as Assistant Professor. Her research mainly focuses on religion and immigration. She is especially interested in Muslims, both immigrant and indigenous, in China and the United States. In her dissertation, based on extensive field work in a racially and ethnically diverse mosque, she examines the intricate process of identity negotiation and construction among immigrant Muslims in the post-9.11 American society. She is currently revising her dissertation into a book and conducting a national survey on values and worldviews among college students in the United Arab Emirates.

CHEN Shengbo is Associate Professor at School of Philosophy and Sociology at Lanzhou University. He also is the Executive Director of Research Centre for Religion and Culture at Lanzhou University in China. Professor Chen has published Dialogues between Religions & Chinese Traditional Cultures (Editor, Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Press, 2011), Dialogues between Religions and Harmonious Society (Editor, Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Press, 2008), "Gospel, or Profit: A Case Study of Commercial Ethic and Management by Christian Entrepreneur in China"(in Christian Studies (12th issue), Beijing: Religion & Culture Press, 2009), "Minority among Minorities, Investigation on Current Christianity in South Gansu Area"(in Dialogues between Religions and Harmonious Society, Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Press, 2008), "Distinguish the Notion of ‘Wu’(物) and ‘Shi’(实), Review The Ming-xue(名学) of Kong-sun Long: Use Xun-Zi a Reference"(co-author with Li, Wei, NTU (National Taiwan University) Philosophical Review, No.35, 2008), "The Christian Spreading in the Area of South Gansu during the Period of Early Twenty Century"(Journal of Lanzhou University（Social Sciences）, No.35, 2007), etc in recent five years. He is currently doing his research on Christianity in Sino-Tibetan border in Gansu province.

WANG Ding-an is a lecturer of Zhejiang University of Technology. He received his PH.D. in Philosophy from Fudan University. From July to August in 2008, he has taken summer courses at the Divinity School of Chung Chi College. He has published articles in several journals, such as LOGOS & PNEUMA-CHINESE JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY, Zhong Jiao Xue Yan Jiu, Li Shi Jiao Xue Wen Ti. He translated two volumes of Chinese Superstion, and also paricipated in the publishing of the Complete Works of Xu Guangqi.

QIAN Zaijian received B.A. in Philosophy from Nanjing University in 1987, and Ph.D. in sociology from Nanjing University in 2004. In November 2002, he participated in Asian Christian Faculty Fellowship at Payap University in Qiang Mai, Thailand. From October 2003 to September 2004, he studied social welfare policy at Aichi University of Education in Japan. In October 2008, he attended the 3rd Global Public Policy Network Conference (GPPN) at Peking University. He was a visiting scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from June 13 to July 25, 2009. Professor Qian has published more than 40 academic articles and authored two books, co-authored four books, edited one book, and eight book chapters. He has finished more than 10 research projects which received honors and awards from government and university. His books include: Modern Public Policy. (Nanjing Normal University Press, 2007); A Study On Vulnerable Groups in Unemployment and the Social Support to Them. (Nanjing Normal University Press, 2006); New Public Policy (Chief Editor)(Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2006).

SHAO Zhengkun is Associate Professor at Jilin University in China. She received her Ph.D. in the Ancient History of China from Jilin University in 2006. She has published Family in Northern Dynasties and more than 10 journal articles, including “On Women’s Positions in Their Families in Northern Dynasties,” “Buddhism Among People Who Had Fictive Kins in Northern Dynasties: A Study Centered on the Inscriptions,” and “Discussion on the Household Economy of Common People in Northern Dynasties.” Her research interests include Buddhism and Taoism in the family of ancient China and social assistance based on Buddhism and Taoism.

CAO Yuanming is teacher at the College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University. He obtained his bachelor degree from Nanjing Arts Institute, and master degree in Religious Studies from Nanjing University.

LI Huawei is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at Peking University. He has published Culture Identity of Christian and the Cultural Change of Rural China——A Case Study of Conflict and Adaption of Christian Funeral Rites in Li Cun:from Idea and Symbol Perspectives (2008) and Rural Christianity and the Reforming of Rural Public Sphere: An Case Study on the Interaction of Lineage, Temple Fair and Rural Christianity in Village Li (2008).

LIU Ying is a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Philosophy and Sociology, Beijing Normal University, China. She got M.A. in philosophy and B.A in education at Beijing Normal University. She is interested in the spiritual world of human being as well as values and cultural problems. Now her research interest focuses on the role believes play in different people’s life.

LI Xiaodong is associate professor of Philosophy at Beijing Normal University of China.  His research mainly focuses on Social and Political Philosophy, Values & Cultural Problems in China, and Moral Education.  He has published Globalization and Cultural Integration(2003), How Many Faces Philosophy Have(2004) and How Does Philosophy Come Out(2007) and some articles in journals. As a visiting scholar at Purdue in February 2008-February 2009, he continues his research in Social and Political theories.

Xiaoqun Wu is professor of Folklorics at Henan University and a post-doctoral fellow in the College of Chinese Medicine of China.  He specializes in folk religions.  He has published two books: Miaofeng Shan: The Historical Changes of the Folk Society in Beijing(2006), and Into the Symbolism of the Forbidden City--A Cultural Study of the Miaofeng Shan in Beijing (2007). 

LIANG Liping is professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Shanxi University.  Professor Liang’s research focuses on the Sociology of Religion, and the interaction between religion and politics.  She has published more than ten articles in prestigious journals, and the book The Religious Psychology of the Chinese People: the Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Study of Religious Conversions.

GUO Qingxiang is professor of Philosophy at Renmin University of China.  Her research mainly focuses on Traditional Ethics in China, Comparative Ethics, and Religious Ethics.  She published The Comparative Study of Christian and Confucian Ethics – The Conflict and Merging of Christianity and Confucianism in the period of Republic of China.  As a visiting scholar at Purdue in August 2007-August 2008, she continues her research in the comparative study of Christian and Confucian Ethics.

LIU Haitao was a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies at Central University of Nationalities, Beijing. She earned M.A. in International Relations and B.A. in Politics at Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang. In 1997-2003 she taught Religious Studies at Hebei Normal University. She was a visiting scholar at Purdue University from January to May, 2006.
She is an editor at Minzu Press, Beijing.