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Shin-fung is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Religion (World Christianity) at Duke University. His research focuses on Chinese Christianities and church-state relations. His dissertation studies the transnational history of Methodism in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong during the early Cold War. He is currently involved in establishing the official Methodist archive in Hong Kong. As a native Hongkonger, he is also interested in the Christian involvement in colonization, decolonization, and re-colonization processes. He obtained a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Government and Law) and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Hong Kong. After that, he worked for six years at a mission organization for China. In 2019, he graduated with a Master of Divinity from the Divinity School of Chung Chi College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Recent Publications


Book Review: The Kaleidoscopic City: Hong Kong, Mission, and the Evolution of Global Pentecostalism

Journal Article International Bulletin of Mission Research · January 2025 Full text Cite

From Singing “Out-of-Tone” to Creating Contextualized Cantonese Contemporary Worship Songs: Hong Kong in the Decentralization of Chinese Christianity

Journal Article Religions · June 1, 2024 For over a century, Hong Kong Christians have sung Chinese hymns in an “out-of-tone” manner. Lyrics in traditional hymnals were translated or written to be sung in Mandarin, the national language, but most locals speak Cantonese, another Sinitic and tonal ... Full text Cite
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