HARVARD UNIVERSITY ASIA CENTER
Cover: Christianity in China in HARDCOVER

Harvard Studies in American-East Asian Relations 9

Christianity in China

Early Protestant Missionary Writings

Currently unavailable

Product Details

HARDCOVER

$20.00 • £16.95 • €18.00

ISBN 9780674128811

Publication Date: 07/24/1985

Short

Related Subjects

  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • 1. Introduction: The Place of Protestant Writings in China’s Cultural History [John King Fairbank]
    • The Signification of Protestant Christianity
    • Highlights of this Volume
  • 2. Christian Tracts: The Two Friends [Daniel H. Bays]
    • Christian Tract Production
    • William Milne ’s Best Seller
    • Further Comments
  • 3. Liang Fa’s Quest for Moral Power [P. Richard Bohr]
    • From Sinner to Christian
    • Good Words to Admonish the Age
  • 4. W. H. Medhurst: Rewriting the Missionary Message [Jane Kate Leonard]
    • Confronting Chinese indifference
    • New Types of Religious Tracts
    • Writings on Secular Subjects
  • 5. Karl F. A. Gützlaff: Missionary Entrepreneur [Jessie G. Lutz]
    • His Adventurous Career
    • His Mission Methodology
    • England Compared with China
  • 6. Protestant Geography in China: E. C. Bridgman’s Portrayal of the West [Fred W. Drake]
    • Bridgman and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
    • Gützlaff’s Chinese Magazine
    • Bridgman’s Short Account of the USA
  • 7. Justus Doolittle at Foochow: Christian Values in the Treaty Ports [Suzanne Wilson Barnett]
    • Suzanne Wilson Barnett]
    • Tracts and the Protestant Message in Chinese
    • Social Life of the Chinese
    • Missionary Values and Chinese Reformers
  • 8. Christianity and Chinese Sects: Religious Tracts in the Late Nineteenth Century [Daniel H. Bays]
    • Chinese Sectarianism and Christianity
    • Parallels in Ideas and Practices
    • Literature as a Bridge?
  • 9. Elementary Education in the Mission Enterprise [Evelyn S. Rawski]
    • Coming to Terms with the Chinese Educational Tradition
    • The Native Teacher
    • Chinese Primers
    • The Christian Three-Character Classic
  • 10. Chinese and American Characteristics: Arthur H. Smith and His China Book [Charles W. Hayford]
    • Smith’s Background and Early Years in China
    • Chinese Characteristics: Its Construction and Argument
    • Smith’s Major Conclusions
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index

Recent News

From Our Blog

Jacket, Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome, by Tom Geue, from Harvard University Press

Who Needs an Author?

In his new book Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome, classicist Tom Geue asks us to work with anonymity rather than against it and to appreciate the continuing power of anonymity in our own time. Here, he discusses the history—and strength—of anonymous works of literature. Back in the roaring ’20s, I. A. Richar…

‘manifold glories of classical Greek and Latin’

The digital Loeb Classical Library (loebclassics.com) extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.