Sidney Xu Lu
Ph.D. Candidate
luxu@sas.upenn.edu
Education
M.A. Fudan University, China (2007); Japan in Today's World Program, Japan (2007)
Fields
Japan (from 1800), China (late imperial and 20th century), Empire and migration
Research Interests
the Japanese empire, transnationalism, Japanese migration, Japanese Protestant overseas missionaries, history of Sino-Japanese relations, the relations between Protestant missions and empires in world history
SELECTED Presentations
- "Messengers of Empire: Japanese Protestant Missionaries in China and Japanese Immigrant Nationalism in the U.S.", Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting 2010, Philadelphia, March 25-28, 2010.
- "Cross Samurai: the Japanese Congregational mission in Korea and the remaking of the relations between mission and empire, 1911-1921", Yale-Edinburgh Group Meeting on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, Yale University, July 2th-4th, 2009
- "Saving Chinese virginities: the Japanese Respecting Chastity school in China, 1921-1946 ", Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference, Villanova University, October 30th - November 1st, 2009, (forthcoming)
