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José Miguel Vidal

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José Miguel Vidal

José Miguel Vidal
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José Miguel Vidal

He is an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Program of Religious Studies. His main line of research is framed in the history of cultural and political relations between China and the West. With the aim of deepening this field of study, he moved to China in 2008, where he carried out studies of Chinese language and history.

His master’s thesis addressed the beginnings of the Protestant sinological tradition and its impact on the construction and dissemination of an imaginary about religion, science and history of China in the West. During her PhD and first postdoctoral research at East China Normal University (2018-2020), she focused on analyzing the creation of knowledge about America in late imperial China, with special emphasis on the interactions between Chinese literati and Jesuit missionaries between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

In 2021, after thirteen years in China, he returned to Chile to carry out a FONDECYT postdoctoral project at the Institute of History of the Catholic University. In this new project, she connected and expanded her previous research, focusing her analysis on the diffusion and reception of information about Latin America transmitted by Protestant missionaries in China during the 19th century.

Since his return to Chile, he has also oriented his academic work towards teaching, with a particular focus on the teaching of East Asian history and culture, as well as the study of historical relations between China, Latin America and Europe.