Biografia
Anthony Eugene Clark (born 12 March 1967) is an American sinologist, historian, and writer. He is the Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair and a professor of Chinese history at Whitworth University. == Education == Clark received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, where he focused on Chinese language, literature, and history. He has also studied at the Central University for Nationalities/Minzu University of China in Beijing, China, Alliance Française in Paris, France, and the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. == Life and works == Born on 12 March 1967 in Eugene, Oregon, and in addition to brief studies at Mount Angel Abbey Seminary and Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and Methodius, he studied and taught Chinese martial arts such as Yang Style Tai Chi and 7-Star Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu from 1979 until 1995. He began his advanced studies of classical Sinology under Stephen W. Durrant, a scholar on the Han dynasty historian, Sima Qian, at the University of Oregon in 1995. Clark's scholarly interest while studying at Oregon centered on the early Han dynasty historian, Ban Gu, and also on the history of Sino-Western interactions, especially in the area of Roman Catholic missionary exchange with Chinese intellectuals during the late Qing. Given his experience as a Catholic seminarian and having studied Chinese martial arts, he developed an interest in the Sino-Missionary conflicts between local Chinese martial artists and Roman Catholic missionaries during the Boxer Uprising, which led to the publication of China's Saints and Heaven in Conflict. Clark's interest in the history of how women participated in important historical transitions during the late-imperial China also inspired him to dedicate much of Heaven in Conflict to the role of female Boxers, known as Red Lanterns (Boxer Uprising), in the events of the Boxer incidents at Shanxi in 1900. In 2019, Clark published the first scholarly study of the famous Xishiku Roman Catholic cathedral in Beijing and its architect, Alphonse Favier, China Gothic: The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral. This is the only Christian church in Beijing to have survived in Beijing through the Boxer Uprising in 1900, and it since 1984 it is protected as one of China's national cultural relics. In 2020, a compendium of his essays was published that highlights Clark's observations while conducting research and writing in China, entitled China’s Catholic in an Era of Transformation: Observations of an “Outsider”. In 2021, he published a study and translation of Wang Yinglin's Three Character Classic and Giulio Aleni's Four Character Classic in his book A Chinese Jesuit Catechism: Giulio Aleni's Four Character Classic. After receiving his first appointment at The University of Alabama in 2005, Clark published his first book on Han dynasty historiography, and turned to his main scholarly focus, which is the history of Christian missions in China. Clark's scholarly publicatio
