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1. Introduction to LEWI

Prof. Cindy Yik-yi Chu

Associate Director of LEWI, Convenor of Cross-Cultural Studies Working Group
of LEWI and Professor of History

Prof. Chu is Professor of History, and served as
Associate Director of LEWI, Convenor of Cross-
Cultural Studies Working Group of LEWI and

Programme Director of Master of Social Sciences
(Contemporary China Studies). She is also the Editor

of Christianity in Modern China Series, Palgrave
Macmillan.

Her books include The Chinese Sisters of the Precious

Blood and the Evolution of the Catholic Church
(Christianity in Modern China) (Palgrave Macmillan, November 2016);
Catholicism in China, 1900-Present (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); The

Catholic Church in China (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); Chinese
Communists and Hong Kong Capitalists: 1937-1997 (New York: Palgrave

Macmillan, 2010); The Diaries of the Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1966
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong,

1921-1969: In Love with the Chinese (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and
its Chinese edition (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co., 2007); Foreign Communities

in Hong Kong, 1840s-1950s (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); China
Reconstructs (Lanham: University Press of America, 2003); and Yapian zhanzheng
de zai renshi (A Reappraisal of the Opium War) (Hong Kong: Chinese University

Press, 2003, in Chinese).

Prof. Chu serves on the editorial boards of Ching Feng: A Journal on Christianity
and Chinese Religion and Culture and Hong Kong Journal of Modern Chinese

History. In 2009 she was a member of the editorial board of the “Foreign Office
Files for China, 1949-1980: Complete FO 371 and FCO 21 Files from The

National Archives, Kew” produced by Adam Matthew, UK.

Her research interests include: Modern and Contemporary China, Cross-Cultural
Studies, Cultural Relations, International History, History of the Catholic Church in

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