Negotiating The Christian Past In China

Author : Jifeng Liu
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 253 pages
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Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271093192

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Negotiating the Christian Past in China by Jifeng Liu Pdf

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 : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 3805005970

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Negotiating Religious Gaps by John Tsz Pang Lai Pdf

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 : Chloë Starr
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 368 pages
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Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506488004

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Modern Chinese Theologies by Chloë Starr Pdf

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 : Gideon Elazar
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096100

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Christian Missionaries, Ethnicity, and State Control in Globalized Yunnan by Gideon Elazar Pdf

Author : Peter Tze Ming Ng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004225756

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Chinese Christianity by Peter Tze Ming Ng Pdf

This volume attempts to review the historical development of Chinese Christianity from a “global-local” or “glocalization” perspective. It includes chapters on the Boxer Movement, Chinese indigenous movements, and Christian higher education and also contains seven biographical chapters. The author expounds upon the interplay of “universal” and “particular” aspects as well as the global and local forces which shaped the characteristics of Chinese Christianity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This work focused on China could have wider implications for modern scholarship, both in the fields of comparative history of education and modern Chinese church history, for those scholars who are exploring the dialogical interplay between global and local Christianities.

Author : Xiaoxin Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2589 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317474678

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Christianity in China by Xiaoxin Wu Pdf

Now revised and updated to incorporate numerous new materials, this is the major source for researching American Christian activity in China, especially that of missions and missionaries. It provides a thorough introduction and guide to primary and secondary sources on Christian enterprises and individuals in China that are preserved in hundreds of libraries, archives, historical societies, headquarters of religious orders, and other repositories in the United States. It includes data from the beginnings of Christianity in China in the early eighth century through 1952, when American missionary activity in China virtually ceased. For this new edition, the institutional base has shifted from the Princeton Theological Seminary (Protestant) to the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Relations at the University of San Francisco (Jesuit), reflecting the ecumenical nature of this monumental undertaking.

Author : Archie R. Crouch
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Archival resources
ISBN : 0873324196

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Christianity in China by Archie R. Crouch Pdf

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

Author : Naomi Thurston
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004363076

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Studying Christianity in China by Naomi Thurston Pdf

Naomi Thurston has investigated the emerging field of “Sino-Christian studies” in contemporary China. Based on extensive fieldwork in Chinese academic settings, the book explores a genuine frontier in the examination of Chinese intellectual encounters with theology and Christian culture.

Author : Francis Khek Gee Lim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136204982

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Christianity in Contemporary China by Francis Khek Gee Lim Pdf

Christianity is one of the fastest growing religions in China. Despite its long history in China and its significant indigenization or intertwinement with Chinese society and culture, Christianity continues to generate suspicion among political elites and intense debates among broader communities within China. This unique book applies socio-cultural methods in the study of contemporary Christianity. Through a wide range of empirical analyses of the complex and highly diverse experience of Christianity in contemporary China, it examines the fraught processes by which various forms and practices of Christianity interact with the Chinese social, political and cultural spheres. Contributions by top scholars in the field are structured in the following sections: Enchantment, Nation and History, Civil Society, and Negotiating Boundaries. This book offers a major contribution to the field and provides a timely, wide-ranging assessment of Christianity in Contemporary China.

Author : Magdaléna Rychetská
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9811918899

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Uneasy Encounters by Magdaléna Rychetská Pdf

The book examines the dynamic processes of the various social, political, and cultural negotiations that representatives of Christian groups engage in within authoritarian societies in Greater China, where Christianity is deemed a foreign religious system brought to China by colonial rulers. The book explores the political and social cooperation and negotiations of two particular Christian groups in their respective and distinct settings: the open sector of the Catholic Church in the communist People’s Republic on mainland China from 1945 to the present day, and the Presbyterian church of Taiwan in the Republic of China in Taiwan during the period of martial law from 1949 to 1987. Rather than simply confirm the ‘domination-resistance’ model of church–state relations, the book focuses on the various approaches adopted by religious groups during the process of negotiation. In an authoritative Chinese environment, religious specialists face two related pressures: the demands of their authoritarian rulers and social pressure requiring them to assimilate to the local culture. The book uses two case studies to support a wider theory of economic approach to religion.

Author : Kenneth Scott Latourette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251096514

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A History of Christian Missions in China by Kenneth Scott Latourette Pdf

Author : Stephen Uhalley,Xiaoxin Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317475002

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China and Christianity by Stephen Uhalley,Xiaoxin Wu Pdf

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 : Wu Xiaoxin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2072 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315493992

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Christianity in China by Wu Xiaoxin Pdf

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

Author : Kathleen L. Lodwick
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506410289

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How Christianity Came to China by Kathleen L. Lodwick Pdf

“The story of the foreign missionaries who served in China between 1809 and 1949 is one of fervent religious commitment and of the loss of faith, of determined perseverance and of angry frustration, of accepting people as they are and of cultural superiority . . . of human kindness and of narrow prejudice, of those who loved China and of those who refused to acknowledge the society in which they lived, of those who spent their entire adult lives in China and of those who fled home as soon as possible, and of those who admired China and of those who were driven insane by living in China. In short, it is a story of ordinary people with all their good qualities and all their shortcomings.” In all of its complexity, Kathleen L. Lodwick tells the story of Christianity in China. It’s essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the contemporary phenomena that is Christianity in China, which some people predict soon will be the country with the largest Christian population in the world.

Author : Lian, Xi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300123395

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Redeemed by Fire by Lian, Xi Pdf

This text addresses the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a collection of sources, the author traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in the 20th-century China from a small 'missionary' church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous opular religion energized by nationalism.