Ryan Dunch

Area of Study / Keywords

Chinese Christianity religion and print culture nationalism

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About

Photo credit: Qiang LI (Shanghai University). Calligraphy by an undergraduate student in 2016 (name withheld but thanks to her!).

Ryan Dunch (唐日安) is Professor of History in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta. He earned his BA (Hons) in Asian Studies at the Australian National University (1987), MA in History at the University of British Columbia (1991), and his Ph.D. in History at Yale University (1996). A specialist in modern Chinese history, he is the author of Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China, 1857-1927 (Yale University Press, 2001), as well as articles and chapters relating to Chinese Christianity and Christian missions in modern world history. He is also co-editor (with Ashley Esarey) of Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization (University of Washington Press, 2020). His current research is on missionary publishing in Chinese before 1911.

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Research

Chinese Christian Publications, 1800-1911: An annotated bibliographic database
基督教漢語文獻 1800-1911 : 注釋書目資料庫
https://chinesechristianpublications.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ 

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Teaching

Past courses taught (since 2015): 

• HIST 280 East Asia to 1500
• HIST 281 East Asia since 1500
• HIST 285 China and the West
• HIST 385 Modern China
• HIST 480 Topics in Chinese History
• HIST 605 Topics in the Nature of Historical Controversy: History and Contemporary Nationalisms (graduate class)

HIST 609 - Directed Study

This credit/fail course is required for students in the thesis-based M.A. program. Students are introduced to scholarship relevant to their research and supported in developing a research proposal.

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Browse more courses taught by Ryan Dunch

Studies in World Christianity. 2021 January; 10.3366/swc.2021.0353

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NAN NU. 2009 January; 10.1163/138768009X12454916571805

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History and Theory. 2002 January; 10.1111/1468-2303.00208

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Yale University Press. 2001 January;

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