About
Zhixi Wang is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Shantou University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and the Center for Religious Culture Studies (http://www.wxy.stu.edu.cn/team_son.php?id=148&LB=86). He received his PhD (2017) in Religious Studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He specializes in religion and literature, with particular interests in the Bible as literature in China, biblical reception in Chinese history, and representation of Christianity in Chinese literature. He has published some thirty scholarly articles, including articles in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Religions, Sino-Christian Studies, and Logos & Pneuma. He is working on a book project investigating the rise of Christian literature in twentieth-century China. It examines the ways the Bible-as-literature movement emerged in China since the 1920s, Christian/Hebrew and Chinese literature were juxtaposed and compared/contrasted, and the epics of John Milton was translated into Chinese.Education
PhD in Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2017)
