CHU Yik-yi Cindy 朱益宜 (Fellow)
Fields of study:
Modern and Contemporary China, Cross-Cultural Relations, History of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong and China, Chinese Foreign Relations, Sino-Vatican Relations, Sino-American Relations, and Hong Kong History.
Profile:
Cindy Yik-yi Chu got her B.A. and M.Phil. degrees from the University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. When she was in Hawaii, she obtained the degree fellowship from the East-West Center, where she was also awarded the Certificate of Education and Training.
She was Associate Director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI), Hong Kong Baptist University from 2011 to 2017. She was also Program Director of MSSc in Contemporary China Studies, HKBU from 2015 to 2017.
She writes on the Catholic Church and the Catholic sisters in Hong Kong and China. She has published 17 books and 50 some articles in edited volumes and journals. Her books most often quoted were: The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969 (Palgrave, 2004) and the Chinese translation; and Edited, The Diaries of the Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1966 (Palgrave, 2007).
Her recent works include: Edited. The Catholic Church, the Bible, and Evangelization in China (Palgrave 2021); Edited with Paul P. Mariani, People, Communities, and the Catholic Church in China (Palgrave, 2020); and The Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood and the Evolution of the Catholic Church (Palgrave, 2016).
She is now editing The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia (China, Japan, Korea) of 40 chapters and 1,200 pages. She is also writing The Biography of Cardinal John Tong.