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The
purpose of the EDS-Stewart Chair is to promote cross-cultural
understanding and scholarly cooperation between China
and Western countries and peoples. The Chair sponsors
study, research, teaching, publication, public lectures
and symposia; acquisition of published and unpublished
materials as well as electronic data; and other academic
and cultural activities. Activities enabled by the
Chair pay special attention to the study of encounters
of Chinese culture and Christian faith and the history
of Christianity in China, particularly the history
of the Jesuit mission in China.
This endowed Chair sponsors rotating research/teaching
positions administered by the Ricci Institute. In
order to allow for flexibility and to enable the university
to attract a diversity of qualified scholars, chair
holders do not hold a tenured position. Appointments
funded by the Chair include Fellows, Distinguished
Fellows, and Chair holders. Normally, scholars with
professional ties with the Ricci Institute are invited
for a period of one semester, one year, or a shorter
or longer period, at the discretion of the University
of San Francisco.
History
The
Electronic Data Systems-Charles W. Stewart Chair for
Chinese-Western Cultural History was established at
the University of San Francisco Ricci Institute with
a major endowment gift from Electronic Data Systems
Corporation in memory of the late Charles W. Stewart,
former President and Chief Executive Officer of Blue
Shield of California. Mr. Stewart served as Chairman
of the Executive Advisory Board of the USF Center
for the Pacific Rim and its Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western
Cultural History. The Chair was endowed in July 1998
under the leadership of Lester M. Alberthal, Jr.,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the EDS.
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Recent
projects, publications and activities sponsored or
co-sponsored by the Chair (2001–present)
2004 and ongoing |
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- “Chinese
Rites Controversy” Research Project
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- “Fostering
New Approaches to Research” Project
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- “Ricci
21st Century Roundtable Database” Project
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- “Nourishing
the Spirit: Social Change and Spiritual
Growth in China Today” Research Project
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- Zhengfusi
Research Project
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- Complete
Works of Matteo Ricci (Chinese Edition).
Beijing: Commercial Press. Forthcoming.
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- Encounters
and Dialogues: Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Cross-Cultural Exchanges between
China and the West in the Late Ming and
Early Qing Dynasties. Edited by Xiaoxin
Wu, Sankt Augustin, Germany: Monumenta Serica.
Forthcoming.
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“Empirical
Research Methodology on Religious Studies
in China Today”, seminar, Beijing,
China, October.
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- Imperial
Documents Concerning Activities of Western
Missionaries in Early-Mid Qing Dynasty (1644–1840).
Edited by Zou Ailian and Xiaoxin Wu, Beijing:
Chinese Publishing House.
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- The
Ricci 21st Century Roundtable Database Workshop.
Lisbon, Portugal, November 2002.
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Fellows
of the EDS-Stewart Chair
Lauren
Arnold (2003)
Ms. Arnold is an independent art historian. She received
her MA in History of Art with additional graduate
certificate in Museum Practice from the University
of Michigan. She is the author of Princely
Gifts and Papal Treasures: The Franciscan Mission
to China and Its Influence on the Art of the West,
1250–1350.
Fan
Lizhu, Ph.D. (2002–2003)
Dr. Fan is an associate professor in the Sociology
Department at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
Born in Tianjin in northern China, she completed her
undergraduate and master degrees at Nankai University
in that city. She has been a Visiting Scholar of the
Department of Sociology at the University of California-San
Diego and Research Fellow of the Tianjin Academy of
Social Sciences.
Eugeneo
Menegon, Ph.D. (2003)
Dr. Menegon is a longtime associate of the Ricci Institute
and an expert on Chinese-Western cultural and historical
exchanges in late Ming and early Qing period. Currently,
he is working with other scholars on the translation
of Matteo Ricci's works from Italian into Chinese,
and participating in a project for the history of
Chinese Rites Controversy.
Peter
Tze Ming Ng, Ph.D. (2002)
Dr. Ng is a professor in the Department of Religion
of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Director
of the Center for the Study of Religion and Chinese
Society at the University's Chung Chi College. A native
of Hong Kong, Dr. Ng has been a Research Fellow at
the Yale University Divinity School and a Visiting
Professor at the Church Divinity School in Berkeley.
His research focus is on the history of Christian
higher education in China.
Paul
A. Rule, Ph.D. (2000-2004)
Dr. Rule is a specialist in Chinese history and religion,
aboriginal religion, and modern Catholicism at La
Trobe University, Australia where he leads the Religions
Studies Program. He has conducted research in China,
Europe, and the United States on the history of the
Jesuit mission in China and has produced many pubilcations
on the subject.
R.G.
Tiedemann, Ph.D. (1999-2003)
Dr. Tiedemann is a professor of history at the School
of Oriental and African Studies at the University
of London. His special research and teaching areas
include the history of Christianity in China, social
movements in China since 1840, and Chinese peasants
and revolution.
M.
Antoni J. Üçerler, S.J., D.Phil. (2003/2006)
Fr. Üçerler, S.J. is a research fellow in the history of Christianity in East Asia at the Jesuit Historical Institute (IHSI) in Rome, Italy and a member of the Japanese Province of the Society of Jesus. He previously taught intellectual history in the Faculty of Comparative Culture at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan . His main research interests are in the field of Jesuit history in Japan and China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in the editing and production of electronic editions of primary source documents.
Stephen
Uhalley, Jr., Ph.D. (1998-2004)
Dr. Uhalley is professor of history emeritus at the
University of Hawaii, a research associate of the
Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California,
Berkeley. Among his numerous publications are a biography
of Mao Zedong and a history of the Chinese Communist
Party.
Evelyn
Eaton Whitehead, Ph.D. (1999-2004)
Dr. Evelyn Whitehead is a developmental and social
psychologist, who currently leads Whitehead Associates,
U.S.A.. Together with James Whitehead, she has been
focusing her professional work on Christian spirituality
and cross-cultural understanding of human development.
She has lectured with James Whitehead on these subjects
in China in recent years.
James
Whitehead, Ph.D. (1999-2004
Dr. James Whitehead is a pastoral theologian and historian
of religion and currently leads Whitehead Associates,
U.S.A.. In addition to offering seminars and workshops
on Christian spirituality and ministry, he has co-authored
with Evelyn Whitehead 10 books on these subjects,
several of which have been translated into Chinese.
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