Lionel M. Jensen is an American academic who is an associate professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, concurrent associate professor of History, and a fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Jensen studied history at Williams College during the 1970s. [5] In 2011, Jensen said that his interest in studying the history of China began at Williams, where he "became inspired by the courage, tenacity and willfulness of the Chinese people in waging a revolution against poverty, hunger, superlative disadvantage and international resistance to found a new independent socialist republic." [5] Jensen earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. [6]
Jensen has been cited as an expert on Chinese history, culture, and politics, [7] as well as Chinese nationalism [8] and religion in Asia. [9] He is also a scholar [10] and critic [11] of Confucius Institutes.
Jensen has been public a critic of China's interpretation of the Hong Kong Basic Law. [12] Jensen has also publicly criticized China's treatment of human rights lawyers, which he has described as "an extra-legal or illegal pattern of apprehending civil rights lawyers whose success in laboring in the courts against the government’s routine." [13]
In his 1998 book, Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization, Jensen argues that the modern conception of the person of Confucius was invented by the Jesuits. [14] [15]
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Lionel M. Jensen is an American academic who is an associate professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, concurrent associate professor of History, and a fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Jensen studied history at Williams College during the 1970s. [5] In 2011, Jensen said that his interest in studying the history of China began at Williams, where he "became inspired by the courage, tenacity and willfulness of the Chinese people in waging a revolution against poverty, hunger, superlative disadvantage and international resistance to found a new independent socialist republic." [5] Jensen earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. [6]
Jensen has been cited as an expert on Chinese history, culture, and politics, [7] as well as Chinese nationalism [8] and religion in Asia. [9] He is also a scholar [10] and critic [11] of Confucius Institutes.
Jensen has been public a critic of China's interpretation of the Hong Kong Basic Law. [12] Jensen has also publicly criticized China's treatment of human rights lawyers, which he has described as "an extra-legal or illegal pattern of apprehending civil rights lawyers whose success in laboring in the courts against the government’s routine." [13]
In his 1998 book, Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization, Jensen argues that the modern conception of the person of Confucius was invented by the Jesuits. [14] [15]
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