Overview

Every so often a work of history appears that radically changes our understanding of people, place and period. Chinese Christian is such a work. This book asks questions about Hong Kong that have never been asked before. It shows that the leaders of Chinese society had a far greater role in shaping early Hong Kong history than earlier historians had believed.

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Author:   Carl Smith ,  Christopher Munn
Publisher:   Hong Kong University Press
Imprint:   Hong Kong University Press
Edition:   illustrated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.10cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9789622096882

ISBN 10:   9622096883
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   01 May 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Out of stock  

Language:   English

Table of Contents

Plates; Introduction to the Paperback Edition by Christopher Munn; Foreword by James Hayes; Preface; Introduction; PART I. MISSION SCHOOLS AND THEIR PRODUCTS: A NEW TYPE OF CHINA COAST MIDDLEMAN; 1. The Morrison Education Society and the Moulding of its Students; 2. The Formative Years of the Tong Brothers, Pioneers in the Modernization of China's Commerce and Industry; 3. Translators, Compradores, and Government Advisers; 4. Friends and Relatives of Taiping Leaders; 5. Sun Yat-sen's Baptism and Some Christian Connections; PART II. THE CHURCH, MIDDLEMEN, AND THE HONG KONG SETTING; 6. The Emergence of a Chinese Elflite in Hong Kong; 7. The English-educated Chinese flite in Nineteenth-century Hong Kong; 8. The Hong Kong Church and Nineteenth-century Colonial Attitudes; 9. The Hong Kong Situation as it Influenced the Protestant Church; 10. The Early Hong Kong Church and Traditional Chinese Ideas; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

Reviews

This classic work in Hong Kong historiography is still indispensable to for scholars. It is fascinating reading for the general public also. -- Jung-fang Tsai, Professor of History, University of Charleston

Author Information

Carl T. Smith, incontestably the doyen of Hong Kong history, graduated from Union Theological Seminary with a master's degree in divinity in 1943. He came to Hong Kong as a missionary in 1960 and spent the next several years teaching theology, finally at

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