2024–: DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford
2022–24: MPhil in Intellectual History, University of Oxford (Distinction)
2018-22: BSocSc in History and Politics, University of Hong Kong (First-Class Honours)
Research Interests
My D.Phil. thesis is a global intellectual history of Christian socialist theology in Republican China. It focuses on four Protestant thinkers, whose encounters with the liberal theological tradition in America and Britain inspired them to articulate a Christian socialist theology for China. By foregrounding the collaborative and transnational nature of their knowledge production, I argue that these thinkers were ‘co-producers’ of Christian socialist theology in a global intellectual community. Along with their Western colleagues, they expanded the meaning of Christian socialism and shaped the global theology we have today. More broadly, I am interested in theology and political thought in twentieth-century China, the transmission of ideas between East and West, and the theory and methods of intellectual history.
Since 2023, I have co-convened the Oxford China Reading Group, supported successively by the TORCH Critical Thinking Communities Fund, the John Fell Fund, and the China Centre. In 2024–25, I was a graduate representative on the Faculty Board, and I now represent the graduate students in the Faculty’s Chinese Studies Subject Group. I am also an associate of the China Centre and the Centre for Intellectual History. My research is funded by the Rhodes Scholarship.
Recent publications
‘Stalinism and the Radicalisation of Wu Yaozong’s American Liberal Christianity in Republican China’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, First View (2026).
‘Review of Jin Lu, Translingual Catholics: Chinese Theologians before Vatican II (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2025)’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, First View (2025).
