Anthony E. Clark is the Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair at Whitworth University, the Distinguished Combe Trust Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and an elected Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society. He has published several books and articles on the history Catholic missionaries and martyrs in China, and is a recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, and the William J. Fulbright Foundation.