Journal of Three Voyages Along the Coast of China, in 1831, 1832 & 1833
Author : Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 1834
Category : Asia
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Author : Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 1834
Category : Asia
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Author : Jessie Gregory Lutz
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080283180X
Western evangelists have long been fascinated by China, a vast mission field with a unique language and culture. One of the most intrigued was also one of the most intriguing: Karl F. A. Gützlaff (1803-1851). In this erudite study Jessie Gregory Lutz chronicles Gützlaff's life from his youth in Germany to his conversion and subsequent turn to missions to his turbulent time in Asia. Lutz also includes a substantial bibliography consisting of (1) archival sources, (2) selected books, pamphlets, tracts, and translations by Gützlaff, and (3) books, periodicals, and articles. This is truly an important reference for any student of the history of China or missions.
Author : Ambrose Mong
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0227905970
During the nineteenth century, Christian missionaries vied for the Chinese souls they thought they were saving. But many things held them back: Western gunboat diplomacy, unequal treaties and their own prejudices, which increased hostility towards Christianity. 'One more Christian, one less Chinese,' has long been a popular cliche in China. Guns and Gospel examines the accusation of 'cultural imperialism' levelled against the missionaries and explores their complex and ambivalent relationships with the opium trade and British imperialism. Ambrose Mong follows key figures among the missionaries, such as Robert Morrison, Charles Gutzlaff, James Hudson Taylor and Timothy Richard, uncovering why some succeeded where others failed, and asks whether they really became lackeys to imperialism.
Author : Lydia He. LIU
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674040295
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.
Author : Steve Clark
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9622099149
The fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of "Japan Fairs" in the US during the latter half of the nineteenth century, this book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with insightful understanding of the various politics and relationships that are involved. While this book will appeal to expert scholars and students of travel literature and Asian studies, as well as those working on cultural studies, general readers will also find it an interesting and accessible addition to their collections.
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Page : 700 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Missions
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Author : Tōyō Bunko (Japan)
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Page : 820 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Asia
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Author : Karl Friedrich A. Gützlaff
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 1840
Category : China
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 702 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Missions
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