Philip Yuen-sang LEUNG received his BA (First-class Hons) from Chung Chi College and M Phil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1972 and 1974 respectively. He then went on to further study in the United States and received his PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1980. Since then he has taught at the National University of Singapore, the California State University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published several books in modern Chinese history and overseas Chinese history: The Shanghai Taotai: Linkage Man in a Changing Society, 1843-90 (Singapore University Press and Hawaii U. Press, 1990, and Chinese translation in 2003 ), Modern China in Transition; Essays in Honor of Professor Immanuel Hsu (Claremont Regina Books, 1995), Young J. Allen: His Careers and the Wan Guo Gongbao (The Chinese University Press, 1978), Confucianism and the Chinese Community in Early Singapore (The Chinese University, 1995), The Cross-Lotus: Selected Essays on Chinese Christianity (Centre for the Study of Religion and Chinese Culture, 2004), The Chinese Community in Singapore(Singapore NUS and Global Publishing, 2006), The Chinese-Christian Encounter(Taipei: Cosmic Light, 2006), and The Legitimation of New Orders: Case Studies in World History, an edited volume published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press in 2007. His most recent publications include A Documentary History of Public Health in Hong Kong (co-edited with Yip Ka-che and Wong Man-kong) (The Chinese University Press, 2018) and A Biography of Lee Il-cheung(in Chinese, The Zhonghua Shuju, 2019). His current research interests have been focussing on Comparative City Cultures in Modern China (Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore), the Confucian Revival Movement in China and East Asia, and the Christian Experience in Modern China especially the history of Christian higher education. He served CUHK as Professor of History, Head of Chung Chi College and Dean of Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. At present he is Research Professor of the History Department.
