Joseph Tse-Hei Lee is Professor of History at Pace University, New York City. He earned his B.A. Honors, M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of London. In the Spring and Summer of 2024, he was a Taiwan Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His research focuses on the intersection of faith and politics in modern China. He is the author of The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860–1900 (New York: Routledge, 2003; Chinese edition, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2010), and co-author with Christie Chui-Shan Chow of [Context and Horizon: Visualizing Chinese-Western Cultural Encounters in Chaoshan] (Beijing: Sanlian chubanshe, 2017). He has also edited several volumes on Sino-Western cultural interactions, including Christianizing South China: Mission, Development, and Identity in Modern Chaoshan (New York: Palgrave, 2018), The Church as Safe Haven: Christian Governance in China (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2019, with Lars Peter Laamann), Empire Competition: Southeast Asia as a Site of Imperial Contestation (New York: Pace University Press, 2021, with Amy Freedman), and From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on Sino-American Cultural Exchange (New York: Routledge, 2024, with Jeff Kyong-McClain).
