[PDF] Negotiating The Christian Past In China eBook

Author : Jifeng Liu
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271093196

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At the turn of the twenty-first century, Xiamen’s pursuit of World Heritage Site designation from UNESCO stimulated considerable interest in the city’s Christian past. History enthusiasts, both Christian and non-Christian, devoted themselves to reinterpreting the legacy of missionaries and challenged official narratives of Christianity’s troubled associations with Western imperialism. In this book, Jifeng Liu documents the tension that has inevitably emerged between the established official history and these popular efforts. This volume elucidates the ways in which Christianity has become an integral part of Xiamen, a Chinese city profoundly influenced by Western missionaries. Drawing on extensive interviews, locally produced histories, and observations of historical celebrations, Liu provides an intimate portrait of the people who navigate ideological issues to reconstruct a Christian past, reproduce religious histories, and redefine local power structures in the shadow of the state. Liu makes a compelling argument that a Christian past is being constructed that combines official frameworks, unofficial practices, and nostalgia into social memory, a realm of dynamic negotiation that is neither dominated by the authoritarian state nor characterized by popular resistance. In this way, Negotiating the Christian Past in China illustrates the complexities of memory and missions in shaping the city’s cultural landscape, church-state dynamics, and global aspirations. This groundbreaking study assumes a perspective of globalization and localization, in both the past and the present, to better understand Chinese Christianity in a local, national, and global context. It will be welcomed by scholars of religious studies and world Christianity, and by those interested in the church-state relationship in China.

Author : John Tsz Pang Lai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 9783805005975

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This book constitutes a pioneering and comprehensive text-in-context study of the translation of Christian tracts (from English into Chinese) by Protestant missionaries in nineteenth-century China. It focuses on the large body of hitherto widely neglected Protestant Chinese books and tracts, putting the translated texts into their socio-political, cultural and ideological contexts. This integrated approach proves to be fruitful and insightful in describing and explaining actual practices of translation, or translation norms. ...] The book addresses the central issue of how original texts were selected, translated and presented by Protestant missionaries under the patronage of various missionary institutions in order to achieve their specific agendas. Based on primary materials and rare archival documents, this extensive survey of the corpus of Chinese Christian literature fills a significant gap in the evaluation of Protestant missions to China, especially with regard to the role of the Religious Tract Society (RTS). Moreover, the contributions of Chinese collaborators are examined in detail to achieve a more balanced view in accessing the role of missionary translators. The book also sheds light on the sophisticated procedures and strategies of cross-cultural translation, particularly on the facet of religious translation in the Chinese translation tradition. "... John T.P. Lai provides a wealth of information about the development of Protestant religious publishing in late imperial China. Full of interesting data and illustrations, this work should find an audience with church historians and mission scholars." Joseph Tse-Hei Lee in Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal Fields of interest: Religious Studies, Translation Studies, History of Christianity in Modern China. Contents: Introduction. Chapter 1: Translation, Protestant Missions, and the Chinese Context. Chapter 2: Institutional Patronage: The Ideological Control of Tract Societies. Chapter 3: Teamwork Translation: The Invisibility of Chinese Collaborators. Chapter 4: Christian Tracts in Chinese Costume: A Critical Survey. Chapter 5: Rewriting the Children's Message: The Peep of Day. Chapter 6: Domesticating for Chinese Literati: The Anxious Inquirer. Conclusion Appendices: Appendix A: Protestant Missionary Publishers and Societies in China. Appendix B: Protestant Missionaries and Chinese Translators. Appendix C: Chinese Translations of Christian Literature, 1812-1907. Appendix D: Most Well-Received Christian Literature in Chinese, 1812-1907. Appendix E: Favell L. Mortimer's Works in Chinese. Appendix F: William Muirhead's Works in Chinese. Bibliography. Index.

Author : Archie R. Crouch
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Archival resources
ISBN : 9780873324199

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A bibliographical guide to the works in American libraries concerning the Christian missionary experience in China.

Author : Stephen Uhalley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1317475011

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This collection offers fresh perspectives on Sino-Western cultural relations, with particular regard to the experience of Christianity in China. The contributors include authorities from China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Europe (including Russia and Eastern Europe), and North America.

Author : David Aikman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1596986522

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This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power.

Author : Chloë Starr
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506488005

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The third volume in the series Modern Chinese Theologies expands the scope of "China" and Chinese theology. It addresses two distinct groups: scholarship by mainland Chinese academics, and the writings of Chinese-speaking theologians beyond China, including the diasporic Sinophone worlds of East and Southeast Asia.

Author : Judith A. Berling
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2005-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 159752235X

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This engaging book on Chinese religion and culture by Judith Berling has been welcomed by longtime scholars of the same as a vital and fresh perspective. 'A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture' is a story of faith meeting faith that will enrich wisdom-seekers as well as provide a tool to introduce students to cross-cultural and interfaith issues. Berling tells how she became immersed in the issues of religious diversity, of her experiences living with religious neighbors, and of discovering how different from her own Midwestern Protestant milieu is the world of Chinese religion and culture. In China, one can be Buddhist, Confucianist, Taoist, and animist at a single moment. Exploring how this inclusivity can be achieved infuses 'A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture'. The multiplicity of deities, the notion of Truth as having many embodiments, even patterns of hospitality - Berling examines how these key aspects of Chinese culture shape and inform religion in China. Through the tales it tells, 'A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture' offers readers insights that no textbook can match, bringing home what religious diversity means in surprising and illuminating ways.

Author : John Kesson
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781331399230

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Excerpt from The Cross and the Dragon or the Fortunes of Christianity in China: With Notices of the Christian Missions and Missionaries, and Some Account of the Chinese Secret Societies The subject treated In the following pages resolves itself into five distinct heads. Under the first, notice is taken of the legends of the introduction of Christianity into China by the Apostle Thomas and his disciples. Under the second head, some space is devoted to the history of the Nestorian Christians in China, in the seventh century, with their leader, Olo-puen, the first apostle. The third head comprises the missions of the Dominicans and Franciscans in the fourteenth century; the chief actor being John of Monte Corvin, the second Chinese Apostle. This mission was speedily extinguished, and no farther attempts were made to introduce a knowledge of Christianity into China until the sixteenth century, when the Jesuit mission was founded by the celebrated Matteo Ricci. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.