Duanran Feng

Supervisor: Henrietta Harrison

Research Interests

I am a DPhil student in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies under the supervision of Professor Henrietta Harrison. I completed an MPhil in intellectual history with distinction at St Antony’s College, Oxford, where I was a Swire Scholar. Prior to that, I read history and politics at the University of Hong Kong on a Foundation Scholarship, obtaining a BSocSc with first-class honours.

My DPhil thesis is an intellectual history of five left-wing Protestant thinkers in Republican China. These Chinese thinkers, I suggest, derived their left-wing Christian political thought from both intellectual exposures and personal travels to the West. As such, they were not just receptive members of a global intellectual community, but active and conscientious contributors to its progress. More broadly, I am interested in theology and political thought in twentieth-century China, the transmission of ideas between East and West, and theory and methods of intellectual history. My DPhil is supported by the Rhodes Scholarship.