Virtual Talk – Taiwan Studies Programme, University of Nottingham
“Framing Futurity: Photography, Religious Diaspora, and Transnational Imaginations of Cold War Taiwan”
“Framing Futurity: Photography, Religious Diaspora, and Transnational Imaginations of Cold War Taiwan”
“Missionary Cameras and Modern China in Global Imaginations”
Emily Conroy-Krutz and Joseph W. Ho discuss Developing Mission.
A great conversation brilliantly hosted by Linshan Jiang of UC Santa Barbara. … More Developing Mission Featured on the New Books Network
Published by Cornell University Press, 2021. … More New Book – Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
“Framing China: Visual Technologies, Missionary Modernity, and Transnational Visions in Sino-US Encounters”
“Graven Images: Missionary Visual Practices and Cross-Cultural Imaginations of Religion in China”
“Photographic Encounters: Visual Technologies and Missionary Modernity in Republican China”
Whitworth University Library and the China Christianity Studies Group (CCSG) have co-sponsored this series of interviews with scholars in the field of China Christianity Studies. The interview series is entitled, “Christianity in China: Recollections on the Field by Prominent Scholars.” (2020)
Many missionaries took photos, but Joseph Ho, an assistant professor of history at Albion College and expert in the visual practices of American missionaries in China, calls the Shields collection “absolutely amazing,” not only for the breadth of the imagery, but also because it survived for more than a century. “These rich materials could have vanished into the haze of time at any one point in their historical journey,” Ho explains. … More Featured in Bucknell Magazine – “A Lens on China” by Jennifer Lin