Author: William Jones Boone
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: bp. William Jones Boone
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: Alexander Wylie
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 772

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Author: Marilyn Laura Bowman
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 146028884X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 969

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James Legge (1815-1897), was a great Scots scholar and missionary famed as a translator of the Chinese Classics when struggles between Britain and China included two wars. It was an era of sailing ships, pirates, opium wars, the swashbuckling East India Company, cannibals eating missionaries, and the opening of Qing China to trade and ideas. Legge was vilified by fundamentalist missionaries who disagreed with his favourable views about Chinese culture and beliefs. He risked beheading twice while helping Chinese individuals being terrorized during the Taiping Rebellion. He became so ill from Hong Kong fevers when only 29 that he was forced to return to the UK to save his life. Recovering, he and his three talented Chinese students attracted such interest that they were invited to a private meeting with Queen Victoria. Legge thrived despite serious illnesses, lost five of his 11 children and both wives to premature deaths, survived cholera epidemics, typhoons, and massive fires. He was poisoned twice in a famous scandal, helped save a sailing ship from fire on the high seas, took in a bohemian Qing scholar on the run, foiled a bank-bombing plot, and earned enmity in the colony for providing court testimony about translation that favoured accused Chinese men rather than the colonial authorities. Legge’s resilient responses and incredible productivity reflected the passion he had developed at the age of 23 for understanding the culture of China. He retired to become a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and the first Professor of Chinese.

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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 832

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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Ann Cui'an Peng
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 0718896548
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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The publication of the Chinese Union Version (CUV) in 1919 was the culmination of a hundred years of struggle by Western missionaries working closely with Chinese assistants to produce a translation of the Bible fit for the needs of a growing church. Celebrating the CUV's centennial, The Translation of the Bible into Chinese explores the unique challenges faced by its translators in the context of the history of Chinese Bible translation. Ann Cui'an Peng's personal experience of the role played by the CUV in Chinese Christian communities lends the narrative particular weight, while her role as director of the Commission on Bible Publication at the China Christian Council offers a unique insight into the continuing legacy of the CUV for Bible translators today.

Author: Tōyō Bunko (Japan)
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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Author: Nicholas Belfield Dennys
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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