Literary representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China
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Literary representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China
(Studies in religion and the arts, v. 14)
Brill, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-193) and index
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Description
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.
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1 Introduction: Literary Turn in the Study of Chinese Christianitybr/>
2 Empire Re-mapped: Image of Britain in Karl Gutzlaff's Novels
1 Westerners/British not "Barbarians"
2 Trading, not "tribute paying"
3 Britain: The "Supreme Nation"
4 Britain upholding the orthodoxy
5 Factors behind Gutzlaff's constructed British image
3 Bible in Fiction: Chinese Protestant Novels of the Late Nineteenth Century
1 Fictional Transformation of Biblical Biographies: Yuese jilue (Brief Biography of Joseph, 1852)
2 Harmonization and Contextualisation of Gospel Accounts: Zhengdao qimeng (Enlightening the Right Way, 1864)
3 Displacement of Biblical Mythology: Qu mo zhuan (Story of Demon Banishing, 1895)
4 Bible on Stage: Chinese Catholic Dramas of the Republican Period
1 Moralistic and Religious Agenda of Chinese Catholic Literature
2 Dramatizing the Biblical Narratives
3 Edifying and Entertaining Dimensions of Two Joseph Dramas
4 Drama Performance and Communal Transformation
5 Saints Re-membered: Chinese Dramatization of Martyrdom
1 Dramatizing the Martyrdom Stories
2 Martyrdom Narratives of the Maccabees
3 Resolving the Moral Conflict of Martyrdom
6 Popular Reception: Chinese Folk Imagination of Christianity
1 Heavenly Family in Hong Xiuquan's Dream Vision
2 Image of Jesus in Anti-Christian Pamphlets
3 Journey to Hell in Chinese Catholic Novel
4 Afterlife in Chinese Spiritual Songs
5 Revelation of Jesus in Daoist Planchette Writings
7 Poetic Inspiration: Biblical Imageries in Modern Chinese Poetry
1 The Bible as Devotional Inspiration for Bing Xin
2 The Bible as Ideological Inspiration for Zhou Zuoren
3 The Bible as Archetypal Inspiration for Mu Dan
8 Pilgrims Re-progressed: Christian Interpretation of The Journey to the West
1 Mahayana Christianity and Buddhist Trinity
1.1 Julai as Christ, the Incarnate God
1.2 Kwanyin as the Holy Spirit
2 Huen Chwang as Apostle Paul
3 The Pilgrim's Progress of Nestorianism
4 "Multi-religious" Kingdom of God
9 Conclusion
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