SONG Gang, HKU (0000-0001-9390-2860)

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Song Gang is Associate Professor in Chinese History at the University of Hong Kong. He has broad interests in Chinese-Western cultural encounters in history, while his research focuses on Catholic Christianity in late imperial China. The projects that he works on include Jesuit-Confucian dialogues, early Chinese Marian culture, Ming-Qing Catholic Bible translations, and Sino-Western cartographic exchanges in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

Dr. Song is the author of Giulio Aleni, Kouduo richao, and Christian-Confucian Dialogism in Late Ming Fujian (Routledge, 2018). He also edited two volumes: Reshaping the Boundaries: The Christian Intersection of China and the West in the Modern Era (HKUP, 2016), and 傳播、書寫與想像：明清文化視野中的西方 (Transmission, Writing, and Imagination: The West in Late Imperial Chinese Culture, FUP, 2019).

Dr. Song is the Chief Editor of the HKU Journal of Chinese Studies (formerly Journal of Oriental Studies), an established bi-lingual academic journal publishing peer-reviewed articles in a wide range of humanistic areas in Chinese studies.

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University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK

2015 to present | Associate Dean (Undergraduate) (Faculty of Arts)

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University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK

University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK

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University of Southern California: Los Angeles, US

Peking University: Beijing, CN

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Harvard University: Boston, US

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"Catholic Bible Translations and Biblical Literature in Late Imperial China”

"Virtue, Miracle, and Faith: Remodeling the Virgin Mary in 17th-century China"

Works (20)

"Catholic Images of Christ and Mary in Late Imperial China"

"清代耶稣会士贺清泰《圣经》译本源流再探 --兼论其满文版、汉文版之关系 (A Further Study of Louis de Poirot’s Translations of the Bible in Qing China: With a New Understanding of the Relationship between the Manchu and Chinese Versions of Poirot’s Translation)"

"The Basset-Su Chinese New Testament"

Giulio Aleni, Kouduo richao, and Christian-Confucian Dialogism in Late Ming Fujian

Giulio Aleni, Kouduo richao, and Christian-Confucian Dialogism in Late Ming Fujian

Re-locating the 'Middle Kingdom': A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Adaptation of Matteo Ricci's World Map

傳播、書寫與想像：明清文化視野中的西方 (Transmission, Writing, and Imagination: The West in Late Imperial Chinese Culture)

"The Many Faces of Our Lady: Chinese Encounters with the Virgin Mary between 7th and 17th Centuries"

"Christian Narratives on Jesus’ Life in Nineteenth-Century China"

“Re-locating the ‘Middle Kingdom’: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Adaptation of Matteo Ricci’s World Map”

"小人物的大历史:清初四川天主教徒徐若翰个案研究的启示 (Small Figure, Big History: The Study of Johan Su, an Early Qing Sichuan Catholic Convert)"

"未曾刊行的'不刊之典': 清中前期天主教汉译《圣经》文献二种考释 (Unpublished ‘Classics’: A Study on Two Biblical Translations in Mid-Qing China)"

Reshaping the Boundaries: The Christian Intersection of China and the West in the Modern Era

“'本意'与'土语'之间: 清代耶稣会士贺清泰的《圣经》汉译及诠释 (Between ‘Original Meaning’ and ‘Vernacular Language’: Biblical Translation and Exegesis of the Jesuit Louis de Poirot in the Mid-Qing Period)"

"Trying the Different Yang Taste: Western Cuisine in Late-Qing Shanghai and Hong Kong"

"Learned Conversations on the Heavenly Studies: Andrzej Rudomina and His Mission in Late Ming Fujian"

"從經典到通俗:《天主降生言行紀畧》及其清代改編本的流變 (From Sacred Scripture to Popular Narrative: Tianzhu jiangsheng yanxing jilüe and Its Later Adaptations in Qing China)"

"Dialogic Construction of the Mind: Christian-Confucian Spiritual Life in Late Ming Fujian"

“The Other under a Chinese Heaven: Image of France in Late Ming and Early Qing Writings”

“Between Bodhisattva and Christian Deity: Guanyin and the Virgin Mary in Late Ming China”