Literary representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China
by
Lai, John Tsz Pang, 1975- author.
Title
:
Literary representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China
Studies in religion and the arts ;
Author
:
Lai, John Tsz Pang, 1975- author.
ISBN
:
9789004394117
Personal Author
:
Lai, John Tsz Pang, 1975- author.
Publication Information
:
Leiden : Brill, [2019]
Physical Description
:
xii, 199 pages ; 25 cm.
Series
:
Studies in religion and the arts ; volume 14
Studies in religion and the arts ; v. 14.
General Note
:
cover illustration: "Christan entering the Wicket Gate=入窄門圖 in William Chalmers Burns,tran., Tianlu licheng(The pilgrim's pogress,1853).
Abstract
:
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.
Subject Term
:
Christian literature.
Christianity and literature -- China.
Christianity and literature.
Christian literature, Chinese -- History and criticism.
Chinese literature -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- History and criticism.
Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Christianity -- China -- History.
Geographic Term
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China -- Church history.
China.
Genre
:
Church history.
Bibliographical References
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805
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npmlib 11003620 BR1285 L35 yh
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NPM Library | BR1285 L35 2019 | 11003620 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |