I hold a PhD in Religion and Society from Drew University, a Master of Theological Studies from Boston University, and a Master of Divinity from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. My dissertation, Political Mourning as Resistance: A Christian Social Ethics of Remembrance, examines mourning as moral witness and political resistance in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, focusing on the annual June Fourth candlelight vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.

Shaped by a multireligious upbringing in Hong Kong and theological training in the United States, I describe myself as a Christian social ethicist whose research interests include comparative religious ethics, liberation theologies, postcolonial theory, religion and politics, nonviolence, political mourning, and Christianities in China and Hong Kong.

Teaching

• Morality, Ethics, and Religion
• Star Wars, Religious Traditions, and Moral Imagination

Professional Memberships

• The American Academy of Religion
• The Society of Christian Ethics
• The Fellowship for Protestant Ethics

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

• "Mourning as Resistance: A Butlerian Perspective of the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests." Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context 53, no. 3 (2024): 273–299.
• "Christian Activism in the Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement: A History from 1984 to 2019." Review of Religion and Chinese Society 10, no. 2 (2023): 228–254.

Book Chapters

• "Interrogating Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Ethics of Nonviolent Resistance in the Authoritarian Context of Hong Kong." In Resist! Democracy and Youth Activism in Myanmar, Hong Kong, and Singapore, edited by Amy Freedman and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, 67–84. New York: Pace University Press, 2024.
• "Awakening Christianity as a Decolonial Ally: Church Resistance in the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill Protests." In Reorienting Hong Kong's Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism, edited by Wen Liu, Christopher Chien, Christina Yuen Zi Chung, and Ellie Tse, 153–162. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
• "Understanding the Use of Violence in the Hong Kong Protests." In The Hong Kong Protests and Political Theology, edited by Pui-lan Kwok and Francis Ching-wah Yip, 75–89. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.