Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China
Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China

Author: John T. P. Lai

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-03-27

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 9004394486

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Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China contributes to the “literary turn” in the study of Chinese Christianity by foregrounding the importance of literary texts, including the major genres of Chinese Christian literature (novels, drama and poetry) of the late Qing and Republican periods. These multifarious types of texts demonstrated the multiple representations and dynamic scenes of Christianity, where Christian imageries and symbolism were transformed by linguistic manipulation into new contextualized forms which nurtured distinctive new fruits of literature and modernized the literary landscape of Chinese literature. The study of the composition and poetics of Chinese Christian literary works helps us rediscover the concerns, priorities, textual strategies of the Christian writers, the cross-cultural challenges involved, and the reception of the Bible.

The Spectator
The Spectator

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1833

Total Pages: 1290

ISBN-13:

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Creating the Opium War
Creating the Opium War

Author: Hao Gao

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-12-20

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 152613344X

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Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War – a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next century. It makes the first attempt to bring together the political history of Sino-western relations and the cultural studies of British representations of China, as a new way of explaining the origins of the conflict. The book focuses on a crucial period (1792–1840), which scholars such as Kitson and Markley have recently compared in importance to that of American and French Revolutions. By examining a wealth of primary materials, some in more detail than ever before, this study reveals how the idea of war against China was created out of changing British perceptions of the country.

Catalogue
Catalogue

Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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