Beatrice Leung

Sister Beatrice Leung ( zh, 梁潔芬) is a member of the Catholic order of the Sisters of the Precious Blood of Hong Kong, and is a professor at Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages. She is an expert on the history of Catholic Church in China.

Career

Leung is a member of the Catholic order of the Sisters of the Precious Blood of Hong Kong, and is a professor at Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages. She has previously held posts as a lecturer in Social Sciences at Lingnan University, and at the University of Macau. She studied for her PhD at the London School of Economics. She is widely regarded as an expert on the Catholic Church in China.

On the subject of the 2018 proposals that the Vatican and the Catholic Church in China could come to an arrangement over the ordination and approval of bishops, Leung said that she felt that the "Vatican lacked expertise when it came to dealing with China’s government and risked getting “trapped.” She had previously coined the phrase "conflicting authority" to reflect the relationship between the organisations. She has also been outspoken about the role of the Catholic church in Hong Kong as an enabler of colonialism.

Reception

Historian Ka-Che Yip described ''Sino-Vatican Relations'' as "an excellent study n arelatively unexplored topic" and "an important contribution to our understanding of ... issues of church and state in China". Sociologist William T Liu described her analysis of the role of the church in Hong Kong on the return of the region to China, as "refreshing" with a particular emphasis on how the church may evolve under Communist rule.

Selected works

Books

* Beatrice K. F. Leung & Shun-hing Chan, ''Changing Church and State Relations in Hong Kong, 1950–2000'' (Hong Kong University Press, 2003).
* Beatrice K. F. Leung, ''Sino-Vatican Relations'' (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Articles

* Leung B.K.F. (2022) Evangelization Through Education, from Simple Schooling to Universities in China. In: Chu C.Y., Leung B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
* Leung, Beatrice. "China's religious freedom policy: The art of managing religious activity." ''The China Quarterly'' 184 (2005): 894-913.
* Leung, Beatrice. “The Sino-Vatican Negotiations: Old Problems in a New Context.” ''The China Quarterly'', vol. 153, 1998, pp. 128–140.
* Beatrice K. F. Leung & Stuart S. Nagel (1993) Super-optimizing china: reunification as an example, ''International Journal of Public Administration'', 16:9, 1459-1481.

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Beatrice Leung Kit-fun, professor of international affairs at Taiwan's Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages, speaks in Hong Kong's Chinese University
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Living people
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Sinologists
Hong Kong academics
Hong Kong women writers
20th-century Hong Kong historians
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Academic staff of Lingnan University
Academic staff of the University of Macau
21st-century Hong Kong historians