Ying Fuk-tsang () is a Christian historian. He is Professor, the Pommerenke Lecturer of Christianity, and the former director of the Divinity School of

Chung Chi College The Chung Chi College is one of the constituent colleges of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a public university in New Territories, Hong Kong. The college is one of the three original colleges that joined to form the CUHK in 1963. F ...

Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university, public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...

(CUHK).

Biography

Born and raised in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

, Ying attended Newman Catholic College for

HKCEE The Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE, 香港中學會考, Hong Kong School Certificate Examination, HKSCE) was a standardised examination between 1974 and 2011 after most local students' five-year secondary education, cond ...

(1982) and New Method College for A levels (1983). He received all of his tertiary education at the CUHK: Bachelor of Arts in

History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

(1987),

Master of Philosophy A Master of Philosophy (MPhil or PhM; Latin ' or ') is a postgraduate degree. The name of the degree is most often abbreviated MPhil (or, at times, as PhM in other countries). MPhil are awarded to postgraduate students after completing at leas ...

in Chinese church history (1989), and

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of Postgraduate education, graduate study and original resear ...

in Chinese church history (1995). His master thesis' topic is "The Adaptation of Religious Belief and Cultural Environment of Chinese Christians in the late Qing Dynasty (1860-1911)," supervised by Wang Erh Ming (Chinese: 王爾敏). His PhD topic is "Saving the Nations in Christianity:

Xu Qian Xu Qian or George Hsu (; June 15, 1871 – September 26, 1940) was a Chinese politician and jurist. He made important contribution to the judicial system of modern China. Originated from She County of Anhui province and born in Nanchang of Jia ...

, Feng Yü-hsiang, and Zhang Zhijiang," supervised by Lau Yee-cheung and Leung Yuen-sang. Ying was baptized at Ward Methodist Church in 1987 and became a volunteer missionary with the in 1999. Ying was Assistant Professor and the Director o
Christianity and Chinese Culture Research Centre
(CCCRC) at Alliance Bible Seminary between 1993 and 2004. In 2004, he moved to the CUHK as Professor at the Culture and Religious Studies Department, Director of th
Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture
(CSCCRC) and Associate Director of Centre for Christian Studies. He was Director o
Divinity School
of

between 2014 and 2020, succeeded by Francis Ching-wah Yip in July 2020. He was a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award (2010–11).

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong 20th-century Hong Kong historians 21st-century Hong Kong historians Methodist theologians World Christianity scholars {{Theologian-stub