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Hongyan Xiang is an Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University, specializing in Late Imperial and Twentieth-Century China, Chinese-Western relations since the 18th century, and the role of Christianity in China. She holds a Ph.D. in History and Asian Studies from Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on the real estate activities of the French Missionaries in South China, examining property acquisition and political transitions from the 19th to early 20th century.
Teaching includes courses on Modern China, Japan, and East Asia. Recent publications explore church-property disputes in the Nanjing Decade, missionary real estate strategies, and intersections of political ideology with religious identity in modern China. Translation work includes a seminal biography of Matteo Ricci, reissued in 2020. Her scholarship bridges archival research with socio-political analysis, particularly through the Canton Archive of the University of San Francisco.
