Clement Tong
Education
Ph.D.,Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, 2016
M.A., History, University of British Columbia, 2008
M.C.S., New Testament Studies, Regent College, 2006
M.Sc., Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, 1994
About
Dr. Clement Tong is an assistant professor of biblical studies and the coordinator of the Global Mandarin Program at the ACTS Seminaries (TWU). He is also a History and Asian Studies lecturer at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and a sessional lecturer at the University of British Columbia. Having worked as a certified translator in Canada for many years, he is interested in translation theories and practices as well as how they are related to the notions of identities and transcultural communication. He also has strong research interests in the history of China, Hong Kong, and the Cantonese Worlds.
Dr. Clement Tong teaches History of Cantonese Worlds (HIST 377), China and the World (HIST 270A), History of Hong Kong (HIST 373), and History of Later Imperial China (HIST 379) at UBC.
Teaching
Publications
Tong, Clement Tsz Ming. (Forthcoming). The First Protestant Chinese Bibles – A tale of Rivalry, Compromise, and Lasting Influence. Monumental Series.
Tong, Clement Tsz Ming. (2022). “Taiping Ideology and the Rewriting of the Chinese Bible”, The Bible Translator, Vol.73:2, 268-279.
Tong, Clement Tsz Ming. (2018). “Translating Memories – the fight over Pikachu in Hong Kong”, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 39:5, 543-556.
Tong, Clement Tsz Ming. (2016). “The Hong Kong Week of 1967 and the Emergence of Hong Kong Identity Through Contradistinction”, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (HK Branch), v.56, 40-66.