Dr Hong Li on faculty of Beijing Program of Asian Studies

Dr Hong Li, who received her Ph.D. in history from The University of Memphis in 2003, writes from Beijing that she is doing well and is working for a program that brings American students to China for study. She is on the faculty of the Beijing Progam of Asian Studies, which is affiliated with American University in Washington, D.C. The program's Web site indicates that she is doing post-doctoral work at the Institute of Qing History, People’s University.

Dr Li wrote her dissertation under the direction of Dr Joseph Hawes and Dr Lung-kee Sun on "Speaking to the Wind": American Presbyterian Missionaries in Ningbo from the 1840s to the 1860s.