Hou Jie, male, born in February 1962, is a native of Tianjin. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of History at Nankai University and the director of the Teaching and Research Office of Modern Chinese History.

He is an academic committee member of the Center for Research on Religion and Chinese Society, Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a researcher at the Center for Christian and Chinese Studies in Los Angeles, USA, and a researcher at the Institute of Catholic and Cultural Studies in Beijing.

Part-time professor at Northwest University, Hebei Normal University, and Anyang Normal University.

Part-time researcher at Hebei Academy of Social Sciences.

Academic editorial consultant of Taiwan's "Communication Research and Practice", editorial board member of South Korea's "East Asian Humanities", and vice president of Tianjin Sun Yat-sen Research Association.

Vice president of Tianjin Oral History Society, executive director of Zhang Boling Educational Thought Research Association, etc.

He was admitted to Nankai University in 1980. After graduating in 1987, he engaged in teaching and research at his alma mater in modern Chinese history, modern Chinese social history, gender history, popular consciousness, popular religious consciousness, history of Christianity, and the history of the YMCA.

Since 1995, he has visited or taught at Nagoya Gakuin University in Japan, Yokohama City University, California State University (San Diego) in the United States, école Far Eastern in France, Lingnan University in South Korea, University of Turku in Finland, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University,

Zhuhai University, National Taiwan University, Shih Hsin University, etc., and also visited Italy, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and other countries and Macau and other regions.

He has delivered lectures at home and abroad, attended international academic seminars, published more than ten academic works and nearly 100 papers in Chinese, English and Korean, won academic awards for more than ten achievements at home and abroad, and undertaken more than ten national and local social science fund projects.

and international or overseas cooperation projects.