REDISCOVERING NI KWEI TSENG AND THE RISE OF THE 'SOONG DYNASTY' IN THE REPUBLICAN ERA
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March 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM UTC
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March 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM GMT+8
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- Participants 嘉賓
Dr. Annie Hongping Nie (Faith and Global Engagement Research Fellow)
Before becoming Faith and Global Engagement Research Fellow, Dr. Annie Hongping Nie was Teaching Associate at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Research Associate at the University of Oxford China Centre, and China Head at Oxford Analytica, an Oxford-based consulting firm. She also served as Chair of Examiners at the Joint Programme of the MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies and the MPhil in Modern China Studies operated by the Oxford School of Global and Areas Studies and the Faculty of Africa and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. She has been a core member of the Leverhulme programme of the Persistence of Conflict: China’s War with Japan and Its Impact, Memory, and Legacy: 1931 to the Present, Faculty of History, University of Oxford. She is the author of the award-winning book The Selden Map of China: A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty (Bodleian Library, 2019). Dr Nie’s current research focuses on the history of Christianity in China, especially the role of Christian women and their contribution to modern Chinese society.
- Organizers 主協辦機構
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
- Mode 活動形式
- Hybrid
- Venue 地點
- Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong, or Via Zoom
- Languages 語言
- English
- Description 詳情
Even though her husband, son, and daughters as well as their husbands were significant personalities in Chinese modern history and heroines of many academic and popular books, she hardly received any attention. The wife of Charlie Soong, mother of T.V. Soong, the ‘Soong Sisters’, and mother-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and H.H. Kung, Ni Kweu Tseng deserves a close examination. Based on archival materials including family diaries, letters, eulogies and interviews, this study attempts to uncover the life story of Ni Kwei Tseng as a woman living in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China, highlighting the radical social and cultural changes and its impact on the transformation of women’s roles and identity at the time. Moreover, born to a local pastor father and a mother who was a ninth-generation granddaughter of Xu Guangqi, a Ming court official and disciple of Jesuit Matteo Ricci, Ni’s story sheds light on the understanding of Chinese Christian heritage and how it helped shape marriage/family structure and social networks in the process of the making of modern China.
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