Dr. Li Tang, born in China. Undergraduate Studies of Economics and English at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing (Bachelor of Economics). Further studies in Theology at Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham, UK and at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Master of Arts in Religion from the graduate seminary “Emmanuel School of Religion” in Johnson City, Tennessee, USA. Doktor der Philosophie from University of Tübingen, Germany in Languages and Cultures of the Christian Orient. Postdoctoral fellowship in Religion and Globalisation held at the National University of Singapore. Since 2005 she has been Senior Research Fellow and University Lecturer at the Department of Biblical Studies and Church History. She held Visiting Fellowships at the Faculty of Divinity and at Clare Hall of the University of Cambridge, UK. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, a Senior Research Fellow and University Lecturer at the University of Salzburg and will serve as a Senior Research Fellow/Scientist at the University of Innsbruck for the next year.
Dr. Li Tang specialises in the history of Christianity in Asian Context, especially in the history of Syriac Christianity in China, Central Asia and along the Silk Road. She has conducted fieldwork along the Silk Road, in China, India, Sri Lanka and in the Middle East. Apart from several edited volumes and many articles on Syriac Christianity, her main publications include: A Study of the History of Nestorian Christianity in China and its Literature in Chinese Together with a New English Translation of the Dunhuang Nestorian Documents (Frankfurt/M, Peter Lang, 2002, 2nd edition 2004); and East Syriac Christianity in Mongol-Yuan China (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2011).