College of Liberal Arts

Department of History

Lydia Gerber

Senior Instructor
Wilson-Short Hall 342 – 509-335-7425
lgerber@wsu.edu

Education

Ph.D. (Chinese studies and religious science), Hamburg University, Germany, 1998

Academic & Professional Interests

Late Qing China (1840–1911)
Crosscultural Studies
Protestant Missions in China
Sino–German Relations

Publications

"Von Voskamps 'heidnischem Treiben' und Wilhelms 'höherem China': Die Berichterstattung deutscher protestantischer Missionare aus dem deutschen Pachtgebiet Kiautschou 1898–1914," Hamburger Sinologische Hefte, December 2002.

"Ein christliches China auch ein glückliches China? Die Berliner Mission im deutschen Pachtgebiet Tsingtau" (Would a Christian China Be a Happy China? The Berlin Missionary Society in Tsingtao under German Rule) in Jahrbuch Mission 1988, Hamburg 1988. 179–186.

"Richard Wilhelms Missionsarbeit im deutschen Pachtgebiet Kiautschou, 1899–1914" in Klaus Hirsch (ed.), Richard Wilhelm: Botschafter zweier Welten, Iko-Verlag, Frankfurt 2003, 167–200.

"The Role of German Missionaries in Post-Boxer North China" in Asia Pacific: Perspectives, Vol. V, No. 1, Dec. 2004, 21–26.

Photo: Lydia Gerber

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