Lionel Jensen
East Asian Languages and Cultures, History
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Concurrent Associate Professor of History
- History of chinese religion and thought
- Folklore
- Early sino-western contact
- Chinese nationalism
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Associated Press
Catholic cardinal, others arrested on Hong Kong security law
May 12, 2022
Zen’s arrest marks “the darkest day to date in the Chinese Communist Party’s incremental destruction of the vitality of Hong Kong and is likely to provoke a reconsideration by the Vatican of its several-year long diplomatic engagement with Beijing over the ordination of bishops,” said Lionel Jensen, associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Notre Dame, who helped welcome Zen to the U.S. school in 2019.
The Washington Post
Hong Kong arrests 90-year-old cardinal on foreign collusion charges
May 11, 2022
Lionel Jensen, an associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Notre Dame, said Zen’s arrest “sounds the death knell of Hong Kong.”