REFEREED PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH
- Forthcoming in 1999. Religious Conversion and Identity
Construction: A Study of a Chinese Christian Church in
the United States. University Park, PA: Penn State
University Press (316 + xiii pp. MS).
- Forthcoming in 1998. "Chinese Conversion to
Evangelical Christianity: The Importance of Social and
Cultural Contexts" Journal of Sociology of
Religion 59 (3):?-?.
- Forthcoming in 1998. "Tenacious Unity in a
Contentious Community: Cultural and Religious Dynamics in
a Chinese Christian Church," pp. 333-361 in R.
Stephen Warner and Judith G. Wittner (eds.) Gatherings
in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New
Immigration, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University
Press.
- Forthcoming. "Assimilation and Integration of Recent
PRC Immigrants in the United States,"in Alvin Y. So,
Nan Lin, Dudley Poston (eds.) The Chinese Triangle of
Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional
Analyses, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998 (29 pp.
MS).
- Forthcoming. "The Decline and Reconstruction of
Morality in the Chinese Society," in George McLean
(ed.), Moral Imagination, Humanities, and Character
Development. Washington, DC: The Council for Research
in Values and Philosophy.
- 1997. "Tension and the Healthy Development of
Society," pp. 69-88 in Yu Xuanmeng, Lu Xiaohe, Liu
Fangtong, Zhang Rulun, and Georges Enderle (eds.) Economic
Ethics and Chinese Culture. Washington, DC: The
Council for Research in Values and Philosophy.
- 1994. "Determinants of Religious Giving in American
Denominations: Data from Two Nationwide Surveys," Review
of Religious Research. Vol.36, No.2:123-148.
(Coauthored with Dean R. Hoge).
- 1994. "Actions, Attitudes, and Perceptions Regarding
Six Technologies," Journal of Social Psychology.
Vol.134, No.4:511-527. (Coauthored with Che-Fu Lee and
Barbara P. Hazard).
- 1992. "Responsibilities and Rights: Traditions in
Chinese Society," pp. 209-223 in Paul Peachey, John
Kromkowski, and George McLean (eds.), The Place of the
Person in Social Life. Washington, DC: The Council
for Research in Values and Philosophy.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
- "Selective Assimilation Within Pluralism: New
Immigrants in a Chinese Christian Church" (35 pp.
MS).
- "Why Conservative Ethnic Churches Are Growing: The
Case of Chinese Protestant Churches in the United
States." Center for Immigration Research Working
Paper Series (39 pp. MS).
- "The Third Sector of Civil Society in China: An
Agenda for Theoretical Construction and Empirical
Assessment" (26 pp. MS).
- "Chinese Ethnicity and the Immigrant Church"
(26 pp. MS).
- "Negotiating Chinese Identities with Evangelical
Christianity."
SELECTED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS IN CHINESE
- Forthcoming. "Modernity, Nationalism and Traditional
Culture: Challenges to Christianity in China," in
Zhongxin Wang (ed.), Christianity and Modernization in
China. Toronto: Christian Communications Inc. of
Canada Press.
- 1996. "A Sociological Comparison of Christianity and
the Chinese Traditional Value System," Christian
Cultural Review (Beijing), No. 8.
- 1994. "The Social Consequences of the Conceptual
Differences between the Traditional Chinese Value System
and the Christian Value System: A Sociological
Approach," Sources and Materials of World
Religions (Beijing), No.1, 1994:1-5.
- 1989. "Christian Culture," in Qintian Wang and
Mingzhou Che (eds.), Trends of Contemporary Western
Culture. Tianjin: Tianjin Education Press.
- 1988. "Martin Luther's Influence on Immanuel Kant --
Concurrently on the Relationship Between Theology and
Philosophy," The Journal of the People's
University of China (Beijing), No. 6, 1988:71-77.
- 1988. "The Change of the Notion of God in Western
Philosophy," Nankai Journal (Tianjin), No. 1,
1988:34-39.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
- "Chinese Ethnicity and the Immigrant Church."
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion, San Diego, CA, November 1997.
- "Comments on Nancy Ammerman's Congregation and
Community," Annual Meeting of the Society for
the Scientific Study of Religion, San Diego, CA, November
1997.
- "Civil Society and the Role of Christianity in
China: A Preliminary Reflection." The 16th
National Catholic China Conference of the US Catholic
China Bureau -- China's Quest for a New Spiritual
Civilization: Christian Perspectives, Rochester, MN,
October 1997.
- "Christian Conversion among Chinese New Immigrants
in the United States." Annual Meeting of the
Association for the Sociology of Religion, Toronto,
August 1997.
- "Assimilation and Integration of Recent PRC
Immigrants in the United States." Annual Meeting of
the North American Chinese Sociologists Association,
Toronto, August 1997.
- "Religion and the Society in China Today: A
Scholarly Agenda." Annual Conference of Chinese
Scholars of Christianity and other religions, Boston, MA,
May 1997.
- "Tenacious Unity in a Contentious Community:
Cultural and Religious Dynamics in a Chinese Christian
Church in the United States." Annual Meeting of the
Association for the Sociology of Religion, New York,
August 1996.
- "Trends of Chinese Protestant Churches in The United
States: A Sociological Explanation. Annual Meeting of
American Sociological Association, New York, August 1996.
- "The Third Sector of Civil Society in China: An
Agenda for Theoretical Construction and Empirical
Assessment." Annual Meeting of the Association for
Chinese Political Studies, Buffalo, New York, July 1996.
- "Modernity, Nationalism and Cultural Traditions:
Challenges to Christianity in China." Annual
Conference of Chinese Scholars of Christianity and other
religions, Boston, May 1996.
- "Chinese Protestant Churches in the United States of
America: Explanations for The Growth of Conservative
Churches and Independent Churches." Annual Meeting
of the Society for Scientific Study of Religion in St.
Louis, Missouri, October 1995.
- "Selective Assimilation in the Chinese American
Church." Annual Meeting of American Anthropological
Association, Washington, D.C., November 1995.
- "Conceptual Differences between Christianity and the
Traditional Chinese Value System." The First
Sino-American consultation on philosophy and religious
studies, Beijing, October 1994.
- "Tension and the Healthy Development of the
Society." Symposia on "The Economic Development
and The Moral Problems in China Today" in Guangzhou,
Hangzhou, Shanghai, sponsored by the Council for Research
in Values and Philosophy and Chinese Universities and
Academies of Social Sciences, August 1994.
- "The Impact of Religiosity on the Pattern of
Marriage Formation." Annual Meeting of the Society
for the Scientific Study of Religion, Washington, D.C.,
November 1993.