Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

Joseph Tse-Hei Lee is an Associate Professor of History at Pace University. Dr. Lee earned his B.A. Honors, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of London in England.

Dr Lee is the author of The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860-1900 (New York and London: Routledge, 2003). He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters on the church-state relations in modern China, Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia, and the Sino-American relations. His most recent publications include the following:

● “Watchman Nee and the Little Flock Movement in Maoist China.” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 74, no.1 (March 2005): 68-96. ● “Christianity in Contemporary China: An Update.” Journal of Church and State 49, no.2 (Spring 2007): 277-304. ● “Christianity and Chinese Diaspora in the Nineteenth Century.” In Chinese Diaspora since Admiral Zheng He, edited by Leo Suryadinata (Singapore: Chinese Heritage Centre, 2007): 247-266. ● “(Coauthored with Amy Lee) The Korean Military Brides in New York.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 8, no.3 (September 2007): 458-465

China’s Third World Policy from Maoist Era to Present

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Dr. Joseph T. Lee looks at the current development of the Sino-American encounter in the Third World. During the Maoist and the Dengist era, China was responding to the international pressures from the United States and the Soviet Union rather than dealing with the Third World countries per se. But since the launching of the … Read more

Cultural Restoration and Service-Learning in Mongolia

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In June 2004, Pace University in New York organized its first international service-learning program to Mongolia. In cooperation with the Cultural Restoration Tourism Project (CRTP), a San Francisco-based NGO, students who registered for a regular course focusing on the history of Tibetan Buddhism had a chance to help restore a Tibetan Buddhist monastery at Baldan … Read more

Bible and Gun: Christianity in Modern China

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This lecture is based on a book that Dr. Lee has recently published ‘The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860-1900’ (2003). Drawing on unpublished Chinese archival materials and ethnographic data collected by him at several Christian villages in Guangdong Province, he argues that Christianity became far more indigenous in China than has … Read more