John Barwick

Research Associate

John Barwick is a Ph.D. Candidate in Modern Chinese History who combines an interest in the history of Christianity in China with a concern for the role that Chinese Christians can play today in helping China build a healthy and modern society.

John did his undergraduate work at the University of Chicago in East Asian Studies, focusing on China and on learning Mandarin. Following graduation, he spent two years in Hong Kong studying Christianity in China and editing a weekly publication on the Church and Chinese society. Subsequently, he did further Mandarin study in Taiwan, after which he enrolled at China Evangelical Seminary in Taipei, where he completed a Master of Divinity degree. Currently John is studying the history of Christianity in China at the University of Alberta in Canada, and his dissertation is about Chinese converts and their influence on Chinese society in the early 20th century. His interests include the role of religion in modern societies and promoting constructive engagement with a rising China.

works by John Barwick

Christian Identity and Chinese Nationalism: The Impact of the May Thirtieth Incident on China’s Christian Colleges

The establishment of Christian colleges in China by Protestant missionaries was one of the most significant aspects of the Sino-Western cultural engagement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These schools were first started as a way of training...