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Conference Session Video Now Available: "Chinese Culture, Context, and Catholicism"

On Saturday, August 3, 2024, at the 29th USCCA International Conference, Dr. Michel Chambon, Dr. Jin Lu, and Dr. Qi Zeng presented on the topic of "Chinese Culture, Context, and Catholicism." We are glad to share the video of this conference session below:


About the Speakers

Dr. Michel Chambon

Dr. Michel Chambon is a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He has a PhD in Anthropology from Boston University and a Canonical License in Theology from the Catholic University of Paris. In addition to his monograph, Making Christ Present in China, he has published papers on the agency of Christian buildings, Chinese Pentecostalism, and Chinese Catholic nuns. He is a coordinator of the Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics – ISAC – an academic consortium designed to foster social scientific research on Asian Catholics: www.isac-research.org


Dr. Jin Lu

Dr. Lu received her PhD in French Literature from Boston College. As a trilingual writer, she has authored a monograph on the concept of philosophe in French Enlightenment (Laval University Press, 2005), served as an editor, contributor and co-translator for a book on the images of France during the Qing dynasty (Laval University Press, 2009) and co-authored a book (with Benoît Vermander) on intercultural dialogue (Peking University Press, 2016). Her forthcoming monograph from the University of Notre Dame Press is entitled Translingual Catholics: Chinese Theologians before Vatican II.


Dr. Qi Zeng

Dr. Qi Zeng was professionally involved for many years in the U.S. pharmaceutical and financial industries. She holds a Doctor of Science degree from Harvard School of Public Health, as well as dual MA degrees in philosophy and theology from Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in theological ethics in Boston college working on her dissertation titled “Toward a Chinese universal ethic.”

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