About Us

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Our Goals
Our Story
Our Organization
Our Co-workers
Contact Us

Our Goals

We would like to provide excellent and in-depth articles on Christianity for free online access of any Chinese readers.

In the preparation stage of this website (2002-2003), our main task is translating English articles. The main categories are Christianity and Humanities, Christianity and Science, Theology, and Christian Ethics. Since 2003, our website has also been collecting original Chinese writings, including writings from seminary faculties, or excellent works of seminary students, or some Christian scholars.

We believe that many ideas about Christianity should be promoted. Unfortunately, the publishing business among Chinese Christian communities are limited geographically and financially. Many Chinese readers are unable to reach any such thought. Therefore, one of the goals of our website is to break through these barriers and provide free access for Chinese readers everywhere.

This website is more concerned with integrating faith with academic excellence. When education is getting popular and the level higher among Chinese people, we hope we could provide them a free and accessible collection of articles that would discuss the faith in a deeper way.

Our Story

The idea of a website was raised by Daniel Cheung in the summer of 2001 to Prof. Kai Man Kwan and a group of friends who were interested in theology (in a non-professional way). Daniel was about to go to the US for his Ph.D. study then. Daniel also talked with an editor, Lawman Lo, of Christian Times, a Christian weekly newspaper in Hong Kong. He agreed to have a joint venture with Daniel and offered to host our website within the Christian Times website, to make future requests for copyrights, and so on.

Later, there were supports from some Christian scholar friends, like Dr. Alex Yu at Arizona State University and Mr. Toby Yip at Simon Fraser University. Then we contacted Byron Barlowe, the person-in-charge of the largest English Christian article website, Leadership University of Campus Crusade for Christ, and asked for copyrights to translate its articles. This process took us a long time and there were many ups and downs. At times we thought we should give up. Finally Byron's generosity and broad vision that transcends institutional backgrounds made this happen. We signed an agreement in August, 2002.

Meanwhile, we have been recruiting translators to work on those articles. Since some articles are difficult and long, and all the translators are busy with their studies or work, the progress is slow.

In May 2003, we invited Dr. Kevin Cheng at China Graduate School of Theology in Hong Kong to be one of our editors. In the same year, we started collecting original Chinese articles. In 2004, we contacted other English websites or periodicals for permission to translate their articles.

Our Organization

Our team is constituted by several voluntary Christian scholars and co-workers and it operates independently of any organization. Christian Times is in partnership with us, responsible for applying for copyrights, hosting our website, providing search engine, doing promotion, etc.

Since we are a voluntary organization, we have not had any financial difficulties and we would like to have a very simple division of labor and administrative hierarchy.

Editor-in-chief:

In charge of editorial and administrative work, including liaison with various organizations

Editors:

In charge of reviewing and polishing translated articles, soliciting and accepting articles

Secretaries:

To assist the Editor-in-chief in various administrative work and secretarial work, e.g., formatting articles, keeping records, etc.

Translators:

To translate articles from English to Chinese

Other Co-workers:

Webmaster, temporary helpers, etc.

Our Co-workers

Editor-in-chief	Daniel CHEUNG, PhD student, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington (email)
Editor	Benedict CHAN, PhD student, Department of Philosophy, The University of Maryland at College Park
Editor	Dr. Kevin CHENG, Associate Professor, China Graduate School of Theology.
Editor	Dr Kai Man KWAN, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Editor	Dr. Daniel SO, Lecturer, School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto; Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Editor	Mazy WU, Master of Divinity, China Graduate School of Theology, BSSc in Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Experienced editor
Editor	Toby YIP, PhD student, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Editor	Dr Chong Ho YU (Alex), Education Psychology, PhD student in Philosophy, Arizona State University
Secretary	Adrienne CHUNG, Master of Business Administration in Management, Southeastern University
Secretary	Wai Ping LEUNG, Master of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
(In alphabetical order of family names)
Translator	May CHAN, BA(Hon) Translation and Interpretation, City University of Hong Kong.
Translator	Joyce CHEUNG, PhD Candidate, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Translator	Sandy CHEUNG, BA (Hon.) in Translation & Chinese, Hong Kong Polytechnic
Translator	Vincent CHEUNG, undergraduate student, School of Arts and Social Sciences (BA in Language and Translation), Open University of Hong Kong
Translator	Melanie FONG, MA in Humanities(Philosophy and Religion), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, BA (Hon) in Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University
Translator	Jenny LAM, MPhil in Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, BEng in Testing Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Translator	Jovy LAM, Master of Arts in Translation and Interpretation, City University of Hong Kong, 2006, Member of Institute of Linguists, Institute of Linguists UK
Translator	Chris LAW, Master of Arts in Translation Studies, University of Birmingham
Translator	Louise LAW, undergraduate philosophy student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Translator	Karen LEE, Bachelor of Arts in Translation, University of Hong Kong
Translator	Vincent LEE, undergraduate student, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Department of Geography), University of Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Translator	Stanley LEUNG, Master of Arts of Practical Philosophy, Lingnan University
Translator	Kin Foon MAN, Master of Divinity, China Graduate School of Theology
Translator	Rebecca POEK, BA(Hon) Applied Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong.
Translator	June TANG, graduate student, Department of Translation, University of Hong Kong
Translator	Sarah Wu, graduate Student in Translation, School of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University
Translator	Brenda YIP, Undergraduate, Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Translator	Grace YU, PhD student in music theory, School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington
Webmaster	Adams Sin Richard Li

(Some translators are no longer in service now.)

During these years, we received help from a very long list of friends. We would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their inputs.

Contact Us

Please send emails to the Editor-in-chief, Daniel Cheung.

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