Books Authored

Book Chapters

• “‘Liu Zhi,’ Works on Christian-Muslim Relations 1700-1900” in Thomas, David and Chesworth, John, eds. Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Vol. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

• “The Role(s) of Religion(s) in the Global Age of Civilization(s),” in Şentürk, Recep, ed. Civilization and Values: Open Civilization – Istanbul Approach. Istanbul: Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, 2013.

Book Reviews

•  Review of Paul O’Connor, Islam in Hong Kong: Muslims and Everyday Life in China's World City, Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2015, Volume 55, Issue 1.

• Review of Wai-Yip Ho, Islam and China’s Hong Kong: Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road, China Information, 2014, Volume 28, Issue 3.

• “From Monolith to Mosaic: A Decade of 21st Century Studies of Muslims and Islam in China,” Religious Studies Review, 2011, Volume 37, Issue 4.

• “Being What We Read: Perennialism in Chinese Islamic Studies,” (Reviewing Sachiko Murata, William C. Chittick and Tu Wei-ming, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms), China Review International, 2011, Volume 17, Issue 1.

Refereed Publications

Journal Papers

• “Chinese-Islamic Connections: An Historical and Contemporary Overview,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2016, Volume 36, Number 4. Read paper here.

• “Benevolence for Obedience: Policies on Muslims in Late Imperial and Modern China,” ASIANetwork EXCHANGE: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2009, Volume 16, Number 3: 25-42. Read paper here.

• “Uncontrived Concord: The Eclectic Sources and Syncretic Theories of Liu Zhi, a Chinese Muslim Scholar,” 2009, Journal of Islamic Studies, 20: 46-54. Read paper here.

• “‘Apoliticization’: One Facet of Chinese Islam,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2008, Volume 28, Number 3: 421-34. Read paper here.

  Conference Papers

• “Embracing the Sage: Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas as Hui Cultural Hero and Muslim Saint,” International Conference on Islam in the China Seas, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 23-24, 2018.

• “Islam in China and Global Chinese-Islamic Relations,” The Revival of Religiosity and its Impact on China Today, Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, December 4, 2017.

• “Re-Collecting the History of Chinese Islamic Art,” International Conference on Islamic Arts in Intercultural Perspective in conjunction with Workshop on Ethnographies of Islam in China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 4-5, 2016.

• “Wang Shih Ming’s Journey to an Islamic Haven in ‘Paradise’ on Earth,” Chinese Muslim (Hui) in Diaspora: Culture, Gender, Identity, and Religious Traditions, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 3-4, 2015.

• “Islamisation and Sinicisation: Conversion, Reversion and Alternate Versions of Islam in China,” Islamisation: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, University of St. Andrews, March 20-21, 2015.

• “Sharīʿa in China,” Sharia Dynamics: Everyday Life and Sociopolitical Conflict, Association for Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 30, 2014.

• “Chinese-Islamic Connections: China’s Internal/External Muslim Relations,” Forms of Exchange: China and the Muslim World, University of California, Berkeley, April 18-19, 2013.

• “Of Manchus and Muslims: Communal Identity Negotiation in Late Imperial China,” Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600–1950, University of California, Santa Cruz, September 7, 2012.

• “Liu Zhi: The Great Integrator of Chinese Islamic Thought,” Evolution of the Sino-Islamic Intellectual Tradition, Association for Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Honolulu, March 31, 2011.

• “The Role of Religion in the Global Age of Civilizations,” International Symposium on Civilization and Values, Istanbul, December 18, 2010.

• “Self-Representation/Misrepresentation: Muslims in the Chinese Cultural Context,” Chinese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 17, 2007.

Non-Refereed Publications

Journal Papers

“Muslim Blue, Chinese White: Islamic Calligraphy on Ming Blue-and-white Porcelain,” Orientations, Vol. 49, No. 2, March/April 2018. Read paper here.

Conference Papers

“Hān Kitāb: Confucian Translation of Islamic Faith and Practice by Muslims in China,” The Contribution of Chinese Muslim Scholars to Human Civilization, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, January 24, 2017.

Academic Conference Presentations

• “Beyond Tolerance: Othering the Self,” Peace in Revealed Religions Conference, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, May 12, 2018. (Panelist)

• “Embracing the Sage: Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas as Hui Cultural Hero and Muslim Saint,” International Conference on Islam in the China Seas, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 23-24, 2018. (Panelist)

• “Islam in China and Global Chinese-Islamic Relations,” The Revival of Religiosity and its Impact on China Today, Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, December 4, 2017. (Panelist)

•  “Nourishing One’s Nature: Rationalization of Chinese Islamic Discourse on Food and Drink in Liu Zhi’s Tianfang dianli,” Pleasure, Providence and Purity: An International Conference on Food and Drink in Islamic Societies and Cultures, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 27-28, 2017. (Panelist)

• “The Keys of Conquest: The Centrality of Sino-Muslims in Foreign Christian and Islamic Missionary Imaginaries,” Ethnographies of Islam in China, SOAS, University of London, March 28, 2017. (Co-Panelist)

• “Hān Kitāb: Confucian Translation of Islamic Faith and Practice by Muslims in China,” The Contribution of Chinese Muslim Scholars to Human Civilization, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, January 24, 2017. (Panelist)

•  “Simultaneous Orthodoxies: Confucian Islamic Scholarship in Late Imperial China,” EASR 2016: Relocating Religion, University of Helsinki, June 29, 2016. (Panelist)

• “Chinese Islamic Art: Collections and Connections,” AAS in Asia: “Asia in Motion: Horizons of Hope,” Doshisha University, Kyoto, June 27, 2016. (Panelist)

• “Re-Collecting the History of Chinese Islamic Art,” International Conference on Islamic Arts inI ntercultural Perspective in conjunction with Workshop on Ethnographies of Islam in China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 4-5, 2016. (Panelist)

• “Wang Shih Ming’s Journey to an Islamic Haven in ‘Paradise’ on Earth,” Chinese Muslim (Hui) in Diaspora: Culture, Gender, Identity, and Religious Traditions, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 3-4, 2015. (Panelist)

• “Islamisation and Sinicisation: Conversion, Reversion and Alternate Versions of Islam in China,” Islamisation: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, University of St. Andrews, March 20-21, 2015. (Panelist)

• “From Silk and Spice to Sages and Scholars: A History of Chinese-Islamic Transaction and Trans-cultural Translation,” China and the Islamic World: Trade and Knowledge, Fuat Sezgin Research Foundation for the History in Islam, Istanbul on June 6, 2014. (Panelist)

• “Sharīʿa in China,” Sharia Dynamics: Everyday Life and Sociopolitical Conflict, Association for Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 30, 2014. (Panelist)

• “Islam in China,” Infusing Chinese and Japanese Religion, Art and Literature into the Undergraduate Curriculum, Asian Studies Development Program, East-West Center, Honolulu, August 5, 2013. (Presenter)

•  “Chinese-Islamic Connections: China’s Internal/External Muslim Relations,” Forms of Exchange: China and the Muslim World, University of California, Berkeley, April 18-19, 2013. (Panelist)

• “The Dīn in Between: Islam’s Unique Perspective on Religion and Civilization,” Concepts of Religion between Asia and Europe, University of Zurich, November 2, 2012. (Panelist)

• “Of Manchus and Muslims: Communal Identity Negotiation in Late Imperial China,” Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600–1950, University of California, Santa Cruz, September 7, 2012. (Panelist)

• “Harmonization & Simultaneity: Islam’s Encounter with Confucianism,” Islam and Asia: A One-Day Workshop, Morgan State University Regional Center for Asian Studies, Baltimore, September 30, 2011. (Presenter)

• “Liu Zhi: The Great Integrator of Chinese Islamic Thought,” Evolution of the Sino-Islamic Intellectual Tradition, Association for Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Honolulu, March 31, 2011. (Panelist)

• “The Role of Religion in the Global Age of Civilizations,” International Symposium on Civilization and Values, Istanbul, December 18, 2010. (Panelist)

• “Islam in East Asia,” Interdisciplinary Symposium on Muslim Asia, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, May 12, 2009. (Panelist)

• “Historicity and Storytelling: The Great Adventures of Jesus, Mary, Thomas, and Xavier in India (and Eastward),” History of Christianity Group, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Montreal, November 8, 2009. (Panelist)

• “Self-Representation/Misrepresentation: Muslims in the Chinese Cultural Context,” Chinese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 17, 2007. (Panelist)

• “Religion, Din, Dao, or Dharma?” at World Religions After September 11: A Global Congress, Montréal, September 13, 2006. (Panelist)

Academic Talks

• “The World of the Qurʾān,” The Chinese University of Hong Kong, November  19, 2018.

• “Qingzhen (Pure and True): Islam in Chinese,” Cambridge Muslim College, May 14, 2018.

• “Recognising the True Lord: A Confucian Approach to Islamic Theology in the Writings of the Chinese Muslim Scholar Liu Zhi,” Centre Seminar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, May 2, 2018.

• “Bi-directional Blue Road: Artistic Convergences of Chinese and Islamic Cultures,” Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong, March 21, 2018.

• “Art of Islam in China,” Fellow’s Seminar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, January 29, 2018.

• “Islam as the Middle Way,” The Sacred and the Profane: Dialogues on the River Delta, Livraria Portuguesa, Macau, November 25, 2016.

• “Islam is not ISIS,” The Chinese University of Hong Kong, October 27, 2016.

• “Muslim Neighbors in the Global Village,” University of Hong Kong, September 17, 2016.

• “Islam and China: The Continuation of a Continuum,” Global China Research Working Seminar, Global China Research Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 29, 2016.

• “Food and Islamic Culture,” New Asia College Language Evening, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 2, 2016.

• “ISIS: Real and Imagined Islamic State,” Monday.COME, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, February 29, 2016.

• “Islam and Modern Society,” Seminar on Understanding, Respect and Harmony in Islam, Islamic Union of Hong Kong, February 27, 2016.

• “ISIS in Historical Context: Myths and Realities of the Caliphate,” Center for the Study of Islamic Culture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, November 3, 2015.

•  “Demystifying Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: Reality in the Context of Global Power Politics,” General Education Forum, University of Hong Kong, October 20, 2015.

• “Rectifying God’s Name: Liu Zhi’s Confucian Translation of Monotheism and Islamic Law,” Islamic Circles, University of London, March 22, 2015.

•  “The Islamic Path of Love: Rumi and Sufi Poetry,” Verses of Love: Buddhist, Islamic & Christian Poets on Embracing ‘the Other’,” University of Hong Kong, March 14, 2015.

•  “Islam and China: Precedents, Peoples and Politics,” Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, January 10, 2014.

• “From Islam in China to Chinese Islam: The Journey Towards Simultaneity,” San Diego State University, San Diego, April 23, 2012.

•  “China’s Muslim Mosaic: Challenges of Islamic Diversity,” East-West Center, Honolulu, February 23, 2011.

• “Islamic Diversity in China: Problems and Solutions,” Fatih University, Istanbul, August 20, 2010.

• “Exchanging Names for God: Translating Abrahamic Monotheism in Imperial China,” James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, April 30, 2010.

•  “The Search for Allah’s Chinese Name,” Center for Chinese Studies, Fall 2009 Research Seminars on China, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, October 20, 2009.

• “Islam in America: Changing Perceptions,” Islam Day Event, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, September 24, 2009. (Panelist)

• “Apoliticization: One Facet of Islam’s Chinese Face,” Brown University, December 4, 2007.

•  “Between East and West: The Middle Way of Islam,” Religion Forum, Hunter College, CUNY, May 7, 2007.

  Encyclopedia Entries

“Hu Dengzhou,” Encycolpedia of Islam, 3rd ed. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2019.
“Liu Zhi,” Encycolpedia of Islam, 3rd ed. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2019.
“Liu Zhi and the Han Kitab,” Oxford Islamic Studies Online, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.