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The story of John Song is fairly well-known within the history of Chinese Christianity. In 1920, he left China to study chemistry in the United States, completing a bachelor’s degree in three years and a master’s degree and a doctorate in another three years. He then turned to theology and enrolled in America’s leading institution of liberal Christianity, Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He had an evangelical conversion experience but seminary authorities thought he was mad and sent him to an asylum. After his release in 1927, Song boarded a ship headed back to China and committed his life to preaching the gospel message.
Chinonye C. Ekwueme-Ugwu teaches courses in African, American and comparative literature in the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, UNN, where she obtained a Ph.D. in English and Literary Studies (2015) in the field of Literature and the Environment. With a B.A. (1997) and an M.A. (2009), in English from the University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education (2008), she had fifteen years prior teaching experiences in secondary and post-secondary institutions. She is a member of the Society for Academic Excellence, UNN. Her other published works include books and articles in language and Literature, some of which are Foundational Courses in English Grammar and Usage (2013), “Global Ecological Degradation and English Nouns” (2013), “Environmental Crisis in Nigerian Novels” (2016), and “On Postcolonial Literature: Ideological and Generational Shifts South of the Sahara”, co-authored with Professor Egodi Uchendu (201