Jordan Zhixi Wang, PhD
Jordan Zhixi Wang is a historian of World Christianity. He received his PhD in Religious Studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, focusing on twentieth-century Christianity in China. He served as a volunteer pastor at Evangel Baptist Church in Edmonton, Alberta, before joining TWU. He co-founded AI-demia, an academic consultancy startup.
- Master of Arts in History (University of Alberta; 2024)
- PhD in Religious Studies (The Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2017)
- Master of Arts in Theological Studies (The Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2014)
- Master of Arts in Christian Studies (The Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2013)
- Master of Laws in Jurisprudence (Xiamen University; 2012)
- Bachelor of Laws (Xiamen University; 2009)
Expertise
Scholarly interests: History of Christianity in China, History of Diaspora Chinese Christianity, History of Canadian Christianity, Public Theology, Biblical Reception, Christian-Communist Encounters, Generative AI for Higher Education, Historical/Theological Studies, and Church Ministries
Recent Publications
Selected:
- Jordan Zhixi Wang, “From Institutional Church to Inner-City Prophet: All People’s Mission and the Social Gospel as Urban Religion in Edmonton, Canada, 1908-1975,” Urban History Review 52, no. 2 (September 2024): 362-84.
- Zhixi Wang, “Repressed Religious Modernity: Zhu Weizhi and the Rise of the Bible as Literature in Modern China, 1925-35,” Literature and Theology 34, no. 4 (December 2020): 430-49. (A&HCI-Indexed; in English)
- Zhixi Wang, “‘What Has Jesus to Do with Socialism’? Protestant Intellectuals, Political Use of the Mandarin Union Version, and the Remaking of a Socialistic Jesus in Republican China,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 30, no. 1 (January 2020): 105-17. (A&HCI-Indexed; in English)
- Zhixi Wang, “The Gospel According to Marxism: Zhu Weizhi and the Making of Jesus the Proletarian (1950),” Religions 10, no. 9, 535 (September 2019): 88-99. (A&HCI-Indexed; in English)
- Zhixi Wang, “‘In Pursuit of Socialism in the Bible’: Hottinger S. C. Chang’s Christian Socialism, Interpretation of the Gospels and Images of Jesus,” Thought and Words: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 57, no. 2 (June 2019): 139-200. (THCI Core-Indexed; in Chinese)
- Zhixi Wang, “A Non-Violent Jesus? Pacifism, Christian Intellectuals’ Interpretation of the Gospels, and the Publicness of Images of Jesus in Republican China,” Sino-Christian Studies, no. 27 (June 2019): 93-139. (A&HCI-Indexed; in Chinese)
- Zhixi Wang, “‘Evangelist of Jesusism’: Hottinger S. C. Chang as a Christian Socialist,” Logos and Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology, no. 46 (Spring 2017): 189-228. (A&HCI-Indexed; in Chinese)
- Zhixi Wang, “Chinese Christians’ ‘Biblical Patriotism’? Three-Self Patriotic Movement, the Magazine of Tian Feng and Political Hermeneutics in Reform China,” Sino-Christian Studies, no. 22 (December 2016): 65-94. (A&HCI-Indexed; in Chinese)
- Zhixi Wang, “Chinese Christians’ Another ‘Marriage Law’: Sexual Ethics and Biblical Texts in the Chinese Christian Journal of Tian Feng, 1983-2013,” The Journal of History of National Chengchi University, no. 46 (November 2016): 215-54. (THCI Core-Indexed; in Chinese)
- Zhixi Wang, “Towards a Political Hermeneutics of Incarnation: K. H. Ting’s Interpretation of the Gospels, Images of Jesus and Their Appropriation,” Cheng Kung Journal of Historical Studies, no. 50 (June 2016): 255-96. (THCI Core-Indexed; in Chinese)
Affiliations & Memberships
- American Academy of Religion
- Association for Asian Studies
- China Christianity Studies Group
- American Society of Church History
- Canadian Society of Church History
- Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
- Canadian Historical Association
- Society for the History of Christianity in China (Hong Kong)
- HIS 541 History of Christianity II (History of Christianity in China)