About This Issue

The U.S. Catholic China Bureau’s biennial national conference was held October 9–11, 2015, in Burlingame, California. This issue’s assembled articles represent the contributions of the scholars who shared their research at the conference. We are grateful to Robert E. Carbonneau, C.P., Executive Director of the U.S. Catholic China Bureau, Berkeley, California, for helping to recruit and review these contributions.

Contributors include Anthony E. Clark, associate professor of Chinese history, who holds the Edward B. Lindaman Chair at Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington; Joseph W. Ho, doctoral candidate in history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; John J. Harney, assistant professor of Asian history at Centre College, Danville, Kentucky; Robert E. Carbonneau, C.P., Executive Director of the U.S. Catholic China Bureau, Berkeley, California; Margaret Kuo, associate professor of history at California State University, Long Beach; and Michael Agliardo, S.J., assistant professor of sociology at Loyola University Chicago.

—David J. Endres