Education:
- University Teaching Certificate (Salzburg, Austria, 2012)
- PhD Languages & Cultures of the Christian Orient (Tübingen, Germany, 2002)
- MA Religion (Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1987)
- BA Economy (Beijing, China, 1984)
Academic appointments:
- Faculty Member of Nisibis Assyrian Theological College, Sydney, Australia (2024-)
- Visiting Professor at Faculty of Theology, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (2024)
- Senior Research Associate at Centre for the Study of Eastern Christianity, University of Salzburg (2023-)
- Senior Research Fellow, at Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Salzburg (2020-2023)
- Spalding Trust Fellow in Comparative Religion, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (2019-2020)
- Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge; Clare Hall Cambridge (2016-2017)
- Senior Scientist at Research Centre Ancient Worlds Studies and Archaeologies, University of Salzburg (2019-2020)
- Senior Research Fellow & Lecturer of History at University of Salzburg (2008-2019)
- Austrian Science Fund Research Fellow (2005-2008)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2003-2005)
- Research Assistant (geprüfte wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft) at Centre for the Economic History of the Eastern Mediterranean & the Middle East, University of Tübingen (2000-2002)
- Project Coordinator and English-Chinese Translator at Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Beijing, China (1984-1985)
Publications:
Books
- Tang, L. East Syriac Christianity in Mongol-Yuan China. Orientalia Biblica et Christiana 18. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011.
- Tang, L. 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 am Main: Peter Lang, 2002 & 2004 (2nd revised edition).
Edited volumes
- Tang, L., and D. W. Winkler (eds). Manuscripts, Gravestones, Monastic Remains: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. Vienna: Lit Verlag (forthcoming 2025).
- Tang, L., and D. W. Winkler (eds). Silk Road Traces: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2022.
- Tang, L., and D. W. Winkler (eds). Artifact, Text, Context: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2020.
- Tang, L., and D. W. Winkler (eds). Winds of Jingjiao: Studies of Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. Lit Verlag, 2016.
- Winkler, D. W., and L. Tang (eds). From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. Vienna: Lit Verlag, 2013.
- Winkler, D. W., and L. Tang (eds). Hidden Treasure and Inter-Cultural Encounters: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2009.
Book chapters
- Tang, L. “Syriac Christian Art from Central Asia.” In: François Pasha Miran (ed.). L’art en monde syriaque. Études Syriaques 19. Paris: Éditions Geuthner (forthcoming).
- Tang, L. “Marco Polo’s Description of “Nestorians” and Other Christian Groups in Yuan-China.” In: Hans Ulrich Vogel (ed.). Marco Polo Studies: Past, Present, Future. Tübingen: Tübingen Library Publishing, 2024: 337-362.
- Tang, L. “Syriac Christian Monastery in Shüipang, Turfan: Notes on the Recent Archaeological Report from China.” In: L. Tang and D. W. Winkler (eds). Silk Road Traces: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China & Central Asia. Wien: Lit Verlag, 2022: 9-22.
- Tang, L. “Christian Communities in Medieval Central Asia: Syriac and Syro-Turkic Inscriptions from Zhetysu and the Chuy Valley (9th–14th Centuries).” In: L. Tang and D. W. Winkler (eds). Silk Road Traces: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China & Central Asia. Wien: Lit Verlag, 2022: 201-222.
- Tang, L. “Traces of Syriac Christianity in the Land of the Tangut from the 8th to the 14th Century.” In: G. B. Mikkelsen and K. Parry (eds). Byzantium to China: Religion, History and Culture on the Silk Roads. Studies in Honour of Samuel N.C. Lieu. Leiden: Brill, 2022: 498-518.
- Tang, L. “The Liturgical Language of the Church of the East in China.” In: L. Tang and D. W. Winkler (eds). Artifact, Text, Context: Studies of Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. Wien: Lit Verlag, 2020: 121-136.
- Tang, L.
“Monastic Movement as a Driving Force in Syriac Christian Missions along the Ancient Silk Road.” In: L. T. Stuckenbruck, B. Langstaff and M. Tilly (eds). Make Disciples of All Nations: The Appeal and Authority of Christian Faith in Hellenistic-Roman Times. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019: 189-198.
