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1. Introduction to LEWI

include “The Belated Formation of the China Bible House (1937): Nationalism

and the Indigenization of Protestantism in Republican China” (Bulletin of the
School of Oriental and African Studies 78, 3 (2015): 515-535) and “To Add or
not to Add? The British and Foreign Bible Society’s Defence of the ‘Without Note

or Comment’ Principle in Late Qing China” (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,

series 3, 25, 2 (2015): 329-354).

Dr. Mak’s expertise as a historian of Chinese Bible translation is recognised both

internationally and locally. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain
and Ireland (RAS), Dr. Mak was a finalist of the RAS’s Sir George Staunton Prize

in 2009 and won the RAS’s Barwis-Holliday Award for Far Eastern Studies in
2014. He also received Special Mention in Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies

Memorial Awards 2010. Dr. Mak was appointed a visiting faculty member of
the Nida School of Translation Studies 2016, which was organised by the Nida

Institute for Biblical Scholarship of American Bible Society and the San Pellegrino
University Foundation in Italy. Having served on the board of directors of the
Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture since 2012, Dr. Mak is

also the treasurer of the Society for the Study of History of Christianity in China.

Dr. Jack Lee

Research Assistant Professor, Cross-Cultural Studies Working Group of LEWI

Dr. Lee obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of
Fine Arts, the University of Hong Kong. He teaches
art history and theory, with a particular emphasis on

the art of 18th and 19th century China. His research

has been primarily in the areas of Chinese art history,
Asian art and Hong Kong art, and his sole-author
books are China Trade Paintings: 1750s to 1880s,

Sun Yat-sen University Press, 2014; From Reality to
Fantasy: The Art of Luis Chan, Asia Art Archive, 2006.

Dr. Lee’s scholarly articles have been published in
both international and local art journals, and he is

active as an art critic, historian and editor in the Hong Kong art scene. His current
research includes a GRF project “Picturing China – A Study of the Visual

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