Christopher Daily, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Education

Dr. Christopher Daily is an expert on religions in modern East Asia, especially Chinese Protestant Christianity, and is the author of Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China (Hong Kong University Press, 2013). His research interests include the Sinicization of Christianity, illegal Chinese house church networks, and the history of Protestant missionaries in China and the Malay Peninsula. He also publishes on the history of Anglophone ideas of China, the history of Sino-British and Sino-American relations, British imperialism across East and Southeast Asia, and the influence of western education models on modern China and beyond. He has previously held year-long research fellowships from the Freeman Foundation, the East-West Center, and the British Academy, and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Prior to relocating to Los Angeles, he was Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Regent’s University London. He is currently completing his second book, which reconstructs the earliest Protestant theological library imported into China via Malacca during the nineteenth century.

• Associate Professor, Regent's University London, 05/2014-09/2016
• Assistant Professor, Regent's University London, 07/2011-05/2014

• Senior Teaching Fellow in the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London, 2006-2015
• Visiting Lecturer in Chinese Religions, King's College London, 2012-2013

• Associate Fellow, Research Cluster for Critical Concepts and Methods of the Study of Religion in Modern China, Faculty of Theology/Religious Studies, University of Groningen, 01/01/2015-
• Research Associate in the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London, 01/01/2014-

• Daily, C. A. China's First Protestant Theology Library: A Catalogue and Study on the Beginning of Chinese Protestant Christian Discourse (forthcoming).
• Daily, C. A. (2013). Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press; Columbia University Press.

• Daily, C. A. 'The Academies across the British Empire: Missions and Missionary Work in India, Africa, and Asia'. A History of the Protestant Dissenting Academies (Vol. 2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming)
• Daily, C. A. (2019). From Missionaries to Scientists: Understanding the Historiography of Chinese Christianities. Concepts and Methodsfor the Study of Chinese Religions I: State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches.

• Daily, C. A. (2012). Hoxton Missionary College (1826-1830). Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia.
• Daily, C. A. (2012). Gosport Academy (1777-1826). London: Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia.
• Daily, C. A. (2012). David Bogue (1750-1825). Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia.

• Daily, C. A. (2020). 'Mission Strategies on Intertextuality: Religious Education and the Sinicization of Christianity in Hong Kong and China in the Early Modern Era.’ (in press)
• Daily, C. A. (2012). 'Robert Morrison and the Multicultural Beginning of Chinese Protestant Christianity’. Social Sciences and Missions, Brill. Vol. 25 (1)