Chris White

Chris White

Chris White

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Assistant Director, East Asian Studies Center

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Areas of Expertise

  • Chinese history
  • Religion in China
  • Chinese Christianity

Education

  • PhD, Modern Chinese History, Xiamen University, 2011
  • MA, East Asian Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2006
  • BA, History, Malone College, 1999

Chris White's research focuses broadly on religion in modern China and more specifically on Christianity in Fujian. He is the author of Sacred Webs: The Social Lives and Networks of Minnan Protestants, 1840s-1920s (Brill, 2017), as well as the editor of Protestantism in Xiamen, Then and Now (Palgrave, 2019). Chris has also co-edited two volumes, Shades of Gray in the Changing Religious Markets of China (with Fenggang Yang and Jonathan Pettit, Brill, 2021) and Christian Social Activism and Rule of Law in Chinese Societies (with Fenggang Yang, Lehigh University Press, 2021), as well as numerous articles and chapters. His current research interest includes investigating how Christian heritage in China is being produced and commemorated today.