Anthony Clark is the Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair at Whitworth University, the Distinguished Combe Trust Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and an elected Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society. He has studied languages and cultural history at Minzu University of China (Beijing), Taipei Language Institute (Taipei), National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei), and Alliance Française (Paris). Clark has been a recipient of several awards to conduct his research on religion in China, including year-long grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, the William J. Fulbright Foundation, the David L. Boren Fellowship, the Vincentian Studies Institute, and the Chiang Ching- kuo Foundation. Clark has published several scholarly books, including: Ban Gu’s History of Early China (2008); China’s Saints: Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing (2010); Beating Devils and Burning Their Books: Views of China, Japan, and the West (2010): Zhonghua Tianzhujiao xundao jianshi 中華天主教殉道簡史 [A Concise History of Catholic Martyrdom in China] (2013); A Voluntary Exile: Chinese Christianity and Cultural Confluence since 1552 (2014); Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi (2015); China’s Christianity: From Missionary to Indigenous Church (2017); China Gothic: The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral (2019); China’s Catholics in an Era of Transformation: Observations of an “Outsider” (2020); A Chinese Jesuit Catechism: Giulio Aleni’s Four Character Classic 四字經文 (2021). He has a new book on Jesuit theater in China that shall soon be published.