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Book The American and British Missionary Concept of Chinese Civilization in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book The American and British Missionary Concept of Chinese Civilization in the Nineteenth Century written by James Miller MacCutcheon and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christianity in China

Download or read book Christianity in China written by Xiaoxin Wu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Christianity in China

Download or read book Christianity in China written by Wu Xiaoxin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 2211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliographical guide to the works in American libraries concerning the Christian missionary experience in China.

Book The Clash of Empires

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  • Author : Lydia He. LIU
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674040295
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book The Clash of Empires written by Lydia He. LIU and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms. The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision of imperial will and competing interests, rather than the civilizational attributes of existing nations and cultures, led to the invention of China, the East, the West, and the modern notion of the world in recent history. Drawing on her archival research and comparative analyses of English--and Chinese--language texts, as well as their respective translations, she explores how the rhetoric of barbarity and civilization, friend and enemy, and discourses on sovereign rights, injury, and dignity were a central part of British imperial warfare. Exposing the military and philological--and almost always translingual--nature of the clash of empires, this book provides a startlingly new interpretation of modern imperial history.

Book Christianity in China

Download or read book Christianity in China written by Archie R. Crouch and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1989 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliographical guide to the works in American libraries concerning the Christian missionary experience in China.

Book Two Way Knowledge Transfer in Nineteenth Century China

Download or read book Two Way Knowledge Transfer in Nineteenth Century China written by Ian Gow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biography of a remarkable Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact with a gift and passion for languages and mathematics. He made significant contributions to knowledge transfer, both to and from China: in missionary work as a printer, playing an important role in the production and distribution of a new Chinese translation of the Bible; as a teacher, translating into Chinese key western texts in science and mathematics including Newton and Euclid and publishing the first Chinese textbooks on modern symbolic algebra, calculus and astronomy; and as a writer in English and an internationally recognised major sinologist, bringing to the West much knowledge of China and contributing extensively to the development of British sinology. The book concludes with an overall evaluation of Wylie’s contribution to knowledge transfer to and from China, noting the imbalance between the significant corpus of scholarly work specifically on Wylie by Chinese scholars in Chinese and the lack of academic studies by western scholars in English.

Book The Victorian Translation of China

Download or read book The Victorian Translation of China written by N. J. Girardot and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-09-05 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book E C  Bridgman and the Coming of the Millennium

Download or read book E C Bridgman and the Coming of the Millennium written by Michael C. Lazich and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Philanthropy Abroad

Download or read book American Philanthropy Abroad written by Merle Curti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells for the first time, in rich detail, and without apologetics, what Americans have done, in the voluntary sector and often without official sanction, for human welfare in all parts of the world. Beneath the currently fashionable rhetoric of anti-colonialism is the story of people who have aided victims of natural disasters such as famines and earthquakes, and what they contributed to such agencies of cultural and social life as libraries, schools, and colleges. The work of an assortment of individuals, from missionaries to foundation executives, has advanced public health, international education, and technical assistance to the Third World. These people have also assisted in relief and relocation of refugees, displaced persons, and those who suffered religious and racial persecution. These activities were especially noteworthy following the two world wars of the twentieth century. The United States established great foundations—Carnegie, Rosenwald, Phelps-Stokes, Rockefeller, Ford, among others—which provided another face of capitalist accumulation to those in backward economic regions and those suffering political persecution. These were meshed with religious relief agencies of all denominations that also contributed to make possible what Arnold Toynbee called “a century in which civilized man made the benefits of progress available to all mankind.” This is a massive work requiring more than five years of research, drawing upon a wide array of hitherto unavailable materials and source documents.

Book American Diplomatic and Public Papers  the United States and China

Download or read book American Diplomatic and Public Papers the United States and China written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Diplomatic and Public Papers  the United States and China

Download or read book American Diplomatic and Public Papers the United States and China written by Jules Davids and published by Scholarly Resources, Incorporated. This book was released on 1979 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Orient in American Transcendental Periodicals  1835 1886

Download or read book The Orient in American Transcendental Periodicals 1835 1886 written by Roger Chester Mueller and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Culture Contacts of the United States and China

Download or read book The Culture Contacts of the United States and China written by George Henry Danton and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1974 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oriental Religions and American Thought

Download or read book The Oriental Religions and American Thought written by Carl T. Jackson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion and the American Experience  1620 1900

Download or read book Religion and the American Experience 1620 1900 written by Annette Blum and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992-11-24 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography is a comprehensive record of doctoral dissertations on religion and American society. Included are 4,240 citations for dissertations written through June 1991. Each work discusses the historical dimension of America's religious experience between 1620 and 1900, and the bibliography provides order numbers for all dissertations available from University Microfilms, Inc. In addition to biographical and denominational studies, the volume contains citations on communal societies, fraternal orders, literature, pragmatism, science, slavery, and temperance. Also included are titles pertaining to church-affiliated institutions of higher education. A preface overviews the scope of the work, criteria for inclusion, and research methodology. A section of bibliographic entries for denominations and movements follows. Entries in this section are grouped in clusters for particular movements and denominations, and the clusters are arranged alphabetically for ease of use. The next section contains bibliographic entries arranged in topical clusters, with topics presented in alphabetical order. The volume concludes with detailed author and subject indexes.