Lei LI
李蕾

Lei Li has been an Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Studies, Nankai University, P.R.C. since June 2024. Her research focuses on Sino-Western cultural exchange and overseas Sinology. She is researching the Basel Mission, its transmission of Chinese culture to the public in the German-speaking Europe and its ethnological writings of Hakka people.

Some of her recent publications are:

“A Study on the Basel Mission and the Spread of Chinese Culture among the People in  Switzerland and Germany (1900-1940)” [《关于巴色会在华传教与中国文化在瑞士和德国民间的传播考察（1900-1940)], Religious Studies [《宗教学研究》], vol 151, no. 2(2025), pp.191-198.

“The Activities of the Basel Mission’s Deji Hospital in the Hakka Regions of the North-eastern Guangdong Province (1893-1946) ” [《巴色会德济医院在粤东北客家地区的活动（1893-1946）》]，Study of Christianity [《基督宗教研究研究》], vol. 34, June 2024, pp. 236-252.

“The Basel Mission Museum Exhibitions and the Construction of the Image of Chinese Culture in German-speaking Europe (1900-1940)”. Sino-Christian Studies, no. 37 (2024), pp.7-44.

“Adapting Christianity to Hakka Culture: the Basel Mission’s Activities among Indigenous People in China (1846-1931)”, Religions, issue13, 2022.