Research
I study the global histories of imperialism, religion, and medicine, with a particular focus on connections between Germany and China from the nineteenth century to the present.
Academic Articles
The Quackery Question in Imperial Germany
Past & Present · Forthcoming
‘Grains of Truth’: Johannes Schütte, Decolonization, and Catholic Reform, 1939–1965
Church History · Published online 2026
A View of Dirk Moses’s ‘Catechism’ from East Asia
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 36, no. 2 · December 2023 · pp. 235–247
Superstition and Statecraft in Late Qing China: Towards a Global History
Past & Present 255, no. 1 · May 2022 · pp. 279–316
In the Shadow of Empire: Josef Schmidlin and Protestant-Catholic Ecumenism before the Second World War
Journal of Global History 13, no. 2 · July 2018 · pp. 165–187
The Quest for an ‘Indigenous Church’: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Indigenization Debates of the 1920s
American Historical Review 122, no. 1 · February 2017 · pp. 85–114
Forever a Patriot: Chinese Christians and the Repudiation of American Liberal Protestantism
Journal of the American Academy of Religion 85, no. 1 · February 2017 · pp. 112–135
Ernst Faber and the Consequences of Failure: A Study of a Nineteenth Century German Missionary in China
Central European History 47, no. 1 · March 2014 · pp. 1–29
Catholic Universities as Missionary Spaces: Wilhelm Schmidt, Chen Yuan, and the Catholic University in Beijing
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 24, no. 2 · June 2013 · pp. 92–112
Catholic and Protestant Individuals in Nineteenth-Century German Missionary Periodicals
Church History 82, no. 2 · June 2013 · pp. 394–398
‘Unashamed of the Gospel’: Johann Hinrich Wichern and the Battle for the Soul of Prussian Prisons
Church History 78, no. 2 · June 2009 · pp. 283–308
The Secularization of the Chaplaincy: A History of the Columbia University Chaplaincy, 1908–1968
History of Universities 21, no. 1 · Winter 2006 · pp. 178–210
Book Chapters
‘Superstitious Beyond All Expression’: Superstition, China, and the Age of Empire, 1860–1900
In Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History, ed. Emily Baum and Albert Wu · Harvard University Asia Center, 2026 · pp. 51–72
「魅」——高延的《中國的宗教系統》與帝國的視域
In 《魅、鬼、疾：東亞醫療史的側面》, ed. 祝平一 · 時報出版, Taipei, 2025 · pp. 345–376
Family, Country, Patient: The Trans-loyalties of a German Medical Missionary in China
In Transloyalties, Connected Histories and World Christianity during the Interwar Period 1919–1939, ed. Frieder Ludwig et al. · Routledge, 2025 · pp. 252–263
論史語所和戰後宗教史研究
In 《挑戰與新生：中央研究院歷史語言研究所九十五周年所慶論文集》, ed. 李貞德 · 中央研究院歷史語言研究所, Taipei, 2024 · pp. 119–140
Jin Luxian, Chinese Catholicism, and Horizontal Networks of Decolonization
In Christianity and Decolonization, ed. Udi Greenberg and Elizabeth Foster · University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023 · pp. 67–86
World War I, the Paris Peace Conference, and Conflicts over Global Health Governance
In The Making of a World Order: Global Historical Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles, ed. Albert Wu and Stephen Sawyer · Routledge, 2023 · pp. 218–235
Cities and Fears of Biological Warfare during the Early Cold War
In Cold War Cities: The Politics of Space in Europe and Asia during the 1950s, ed. Tze-ki Hon · Routledge, 2021
The Doctor as Patient: The Case of Elisabeth Kehrer and German Medical Missionaries in China
In Sino-German Encounters and Entanglements: Transnational Politics and Culture, 1890–1950, ed. Joanne Miyang Cho · Palgrave, 2021 · pp. 189–208
On Chinese Rites and Rights
In Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered, ed. Sarah Shortall and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins · Cambridge University Press, 2020 · pp. 207–222
Converting Individuals, Saving the State: Narratives of Conversion in Nineteenth-Century German Missionary Periodicals
In Missions and Media: The Politics of Missionary Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Felicity Jensz and Hanna Acke · Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013 · pp. 79–96