Leung is a member of the Catholic order of the Sisters of the Precious Blood of Hong Kong, and is a professor atWenzao Ursuline University of Languages.[1][2][3] She has previously held posts as a lecturer in Social Sciences atLingnan University,[4] and at theUniversity of Macau.[5] She studied for her PhD at the London School of Economics.[6] She is widely regarded as an expert on the Catholic Church in China.[7][8]
On the subject of the 2018 proposals that the Vatican and the Catholic Church in China could come to an arrangement over the ordination and approval of bishops, Leung said that she felt that the "Vatican lacked expertise when it came to dealing with China’s government and risked getting “trapped.”[9] She had previously coined the phrase "conflicting authority" to reflect the relationship between the organisations.[10] She has also been outspoken about the role of the Catholic church in Hong Kong as an enabler of colonialism.[11]
HistorianKa-Che Yip describedSino-Vatican Relations as "an excellent study [on a] relatively unexplored topic" and "an important contribution to our understanding of ... issues of church and state in China".[12] SociologistWilliam T Liu described her analysis of the role of the church in Hong Kong on the return of the region to China, as "refreshing" with a particular emphasis on how the church may evolve under Communist rule.[13]
Leung B.K.F. (2022) Evangelization Through Education, from Simple Schooling to Universities in China. In: Chu C.Y., Leung B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.[16]
Leung, Beatrice. "China's religious freedom policy: The art of managing religious activity."The China Quarterly 184 (2005): 894-913.[17]
Leung, Beatrice. “The Sino-Vatican Negotiations: Old Problems in a New Context.”The China Quarterly, vol. 153, 1998, pp. 128–140.[18]
Beatrice K. F. Leung & Stuart S. Nagel (1993) Super-optimizing china: reunification as an example,International Journal of Public Administration, 16:9, 1459-1481.[19]
^Affairs, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World."Beatrice Leung".berkleycenter.georgetown.edu. Retrieved2022-02-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Jaschok, Maria. "Religious Women in a Chinese City: Ordering the past, recovering the future–Notes from fieldwork in the central Chinese province of Henan."QEH Working Paper Series – QEHWPS125 (2005).
^Leung, Beatrice (2003).Changing church and state relations in Hong Kong, 1950-2000. Shun-hing Chan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.ISBN978-988-220-057-9.OCLC642685729.
