Kathleen L. Lodwick (born 1944, died 2022) was an American educator and historian of missions to China.

Biography

Lodwick holds a Ph.D. in Chinese history from the University of Arizona and is a professor of history at Pennsylvania State University at the Lehigh Valley Campus of Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College, teaching courses on traditional, modern, and twentieth-century China.[1] Her grandfather, Edward Stephen Worthington, was a direct descendant of Kentucky frontiersman Edward Worthington.[2]

Lodwick has written or contributed to more than a dozen books and articles on Chinese history, especially the history of missionaries in China. Her research has included a history of the Nanjing Theological Seminary under a grant from the Foundation for Theological Education.[3] She published a two-volume index to the Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal in 1986.

Bibliography

  • Quien es quien: A Who's Who of Spanish-heritage librarians in the United States (1976) - co-written with Arnulfo D. Trejo
  • The Chinese Recorder Index: A Guide to Christian Missions in Asia, 1867-1941 (1986)
  • Educating the Women of Hainan: The Career of Margaret Moninger in China, 1915-1942 (1995)
  • Crusaders Against Opium: Protestant Missionaries in China, 1874-1917 (1996)
  • The Widow's Quest: The Byers Extraterritorial Case in Hainan, China, 1924-1925 (2003)
  • The Missionary Kaleidoscope: Portraits of Six China Missionaries (2005) - co-written with W.K. Cheng

References

  1. โ†‘ Uhalley, Stephen; Xiaoxin Wu, eds. (2001). China and Christianity: Burdened Past, Hopeful Future. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. p. 475. ISBN 0-7656-0661-5.
  2. โ†‘ Lodwick, Kathleen L. (1996). Crusaders Against Opium: Protestant Missionaries in China, 1874-1917. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. p. v.
  3. โ†‘ EastBridge Imprints. "Imprints and Series: Kathleen L. Lodwick, Imprint Editor". EastBridgeBooks.com. Archived from the original on 9 February 2007.
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