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Author:   John T. P. Lai
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   14
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9789004394117

ISBN 10:   9004394117
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations  1 Introduction: Literary Turn in the Study of Chinese Christianitybr/>  2 Empire Re-mapped: Image of Britain in Karl Gützlaff’s Novels  1 Westerners/British not “Barbarians”  2 Trading, not “tribute paying”  3 Britain: The “Supreme Nation”  4 Britain upholding the orthodoxy  5 Factors behind Gützlaff’s constructed British image  3 Bible in Fiction: Chinese Protestant Novels of the Late Nineteenth Century  1 Fictional Transformation of Biblical Biographies: Yuese jilüe (Brief Biography of Joseph, 1852)  2 Harmonization and Contextualisation of Gospel Accounts: Zhengdao qimeng (Enlightening the Right Way, 1864)  3 Displacement of Biblical Mythology: Qu mo zhuan (Story of Demon Banishing, 1895)  4 Bible on Stage: Chinese Catholic Dramas of the Republican Period  1 Moralistic and Religious Agenda of Chinese Catholic Literature  2 Dramatizing the Biblical Narratives  3 Edifying and Entertaining Dimensions of Two Joseph Dramas  4 Drama Performance and Communal Transformation  5 Saints Re-membered: Chinese Dramatization of Martyrdom  1 Dramatizing the Martyrdom Stories  2 Martyrdom Narratives of the Maccabees  3 Resolving the Moral Conflict of Martyrdom  6 Popular Reception: Chinese Folk Imagination of Christianity  1 Heavenly Family in Hong Xiuquan’s Dream Vision  2 Image of Jesus in Anti-Christian Pamphlets  3 Journey to Hell in Chinese Catholic Novel  4 Afterlife in Chinese Spiritual Songs  5 Revelation of Jesus in Daoist Planchette Writings  7 Poetic Inspiration: Biblical Imageries in Modern Chinese Poetry  1 The Bible as Devotional Inspiration for Bing Xin  2 The Bible as Ideological Inspiration for Zhou Zuoren  3 The Bible as Archetypal Inspiration for Mu Dan  8 Pilgrims Re-progressed: Christian Interpretation of The Journey to the West  1 Mahayana Christianity and Buddhist Trinity  1.1 Julai as Christ, the Incarnate God  1.2 Kwanyin as the Holy Spirit  2 Huen Chwang as Apostle Paul  3 The Pilgrim’s Progress of Nestorianism  4 “Multi-religious” Kingdom of God  9 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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"""The book’s greatest asset is its ability to draw on multiple fields to show the migration, translation, and reinterpretation of stories and images between China and the West. Lai’s deep knowledge of several fields, including biblical exegesis and interpretation, translation studies, Chinese folk religion, and more, are reflected in his analyses. (...) This is a valuable contribution to the field, both summarizing and enhancing the ongoing “literary turn” in the study of Christianity in modern China. The various chapters serve as compact case studies in translation and crosscultural interaction and are useful for both research and teaching purposes."" Steven Pieragastini, Loyola Marymount University, Journal of Jesuit Studies 6 (2019)."

The book's greatest asset is its ability to draw on multiple fields to show the migration, translation, and reinterpretation of stories and images between China and the West. Lai's deep knowledge of several fields, including biblical exegesis and interpretation, translation studies, Chinese folk religion, and more, are reflected in his analyses. (...) This is a valuable contribution to the field, both summarizing and enhancing the ongoing literary turn in the study of Christianity in modern China. The various chapters serve as compact case studies in translation and crosscultural interaction and are useful for both research and teaching purposes. Steven Pieragastini, Loyola Marymount University, Journal of Jesuit Studies 6 (2019).

""The book’s greatest asset is its ability to draw on multiple fields to show the migration, translation, and reinterpretation of stories and images between China and the West. Lai’s deep knowledge of several fields, including biblical exegesis and interpretation, translation studies, Chinese folk religion, and more, are reflected in his analyses. (...) This is a valuable contribution to the field, both summarizing and enhancing the ongoing “literary turn” in the study of Christianity in modern China. The various chapters serve as compact case studies in translation and crosscultural interaction and are useful for both research and teaching purposes."" Steven Pieragastini, Loyola Marymount University, Journal of Jesuit Studies 6 (2019).

Author Information

John T. P. Lai, PhD (2005), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published three monographs, including Negotiating Religious Gaps: The Enterprise of Translating Christian Tracts by Protestant Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century China (2012).

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