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Scottish Missions to China
Commemorating the Legacy of James Legge (1815-1897)
Series: - Theology and Mission in World Christianity, Volume: 23
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This volume explores the important legacy of Scottish missions to China, with a focus on the missionary-scholar and Protestant sinologist par excellence James Legge (1815â1897). It challenges the simplistic caricature of Protestant missionaries as Orientalizing imperialists, but also shows how the Chinese context and Chinese persons âconvertedâ Scottish missionaries in their understandings of China and the broader world.
Scottish Missions to China brings together essays by leading Chinese, European, and North American scholars in mission history, sinology, theology, cultural and literary studies, and psychology. It calls attention to how the historic enterprise of Scottish missions to China presents new insights into Scottish-Chinese and British-Chinese relations.
Contributors are: Joanna Baradziej, Marilyn L. Bowman, Alexander Chow, Gao Zhiqiang, Joachim Gentz, David Jasper, Christopher Legge, Lauren F. Pfister, David J. Reimer, Brian Stanley, Yang Huilin, Zheng Shuhong.
Scottish Missions to China brings together essays by leading Chinese, European, and North American scholars in mission history, sinology, theology, cultural and literary studies, and psychology. It calls attention to how the historic enterprise of Scottish missions to China presents new insights into Scottish-Chinese and British-Chinese relations.
Contributors are: Joanna Baradziej, Marilyn L. Bowman, Alexander Chow, Gao Zhiqiang, Joachim Gentz, David Jasper, Christopher Legge, Lauren F. Pfister, David J. Reimer, Brian Stanley, Yang Huilin, Zheng Shuhong.
Alexander Chow is Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and is co-director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity. He is co-editor of the journal Studies in World Christianity (Edinburgh University Press) and is editor of the Chinese Christianities Series (University of Notre Dame Press). He is author of two books, most recently Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity (Oxford University Press 2018).
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Notes on Romanization
Introduction
âAlexander Chow
1 Pulling the Plank Out of Oneâs Own Eye: Reflective Moments of Transformation Gained from James Leggeâs Christian Engagement with Four Notable Chinese Persons
âLauren F. Pfister
2 Psychological Research and the Roots of James Leggeâs Resilience
âMarilyn L. Bowman
3 Legge in Oxford
âDavid Jasper
4 William Chalmers Burns in China
âDavid J. Reimer
5 China through Womenâs Eyes: The Contribution of Female Missionaries in Manchuria to the Image of China at the Turn of the 19th Century
âJoanna Baradziej
6 The AngloâChinese College as a Bridge between the East and the West in Morrison and Leggeâs Time
âGao Zhiqiang
7 The Translatorâs Identity and Its Paradox: James Legge and Gu Hongming
âYang Huilin
8 James Leggeâs Hermeneutical Methodology as Revealed in His Translation of the Daxue
âZheng Shuhong
9 âGod Has Conferred Even on the Inferior People a Moral Senseâ: Leggeâs Concept of the âPeopleâ (min) in His Translation of the Book of Documents
âJoachim Gentz
10 Finding Godâs Chinese Name: A Comparison of the Approaches of Matteo Ricci and James Legge
âAlexander Chow
Afterword: James Legge and the Missionary Tradition in British Sinology
âBrian Stanley
Postscript: Living in the Shadows
âChristopher Legge
Index
Notes on Contributors
Notes on Romanization
Introduction
âAlexander Chow
Part 1: The Man, James Legge
1 Pulling the Plank Out of Oneâs Own Eye: Reflective Moments of Transformation Gained from James Leggeâs Christian Engagement with Four Notable Chinese Persons
âLauren F. Pfister
2 Psychological Research and the Roots of James Leggeâs Resilience
âMarilyn L. Bowman
3 Legge in Oxford
âDavid Jasper
Part 2: Scottish Missions in China
4 William Chalmers Burns in China
âDavid J. Reimer
5 China through Womenâs Eyes: The Contribution of Female Missionaries in Manchuria to the Image of China at the Turn of the 19th Century
âJoanna Baradziej
6 The AngloâChinese College as a Bridge between the East and the West in Morrison and Leggeâs Time
âGao Zhiqiang
Part 3: Translators and Translations
7 The Translatorâs Identity and Its Paradox: James Legge and Gu Hongming
âYang Huilin
8 James Leggeâs Hermeneutical Methodology as Revealed in His Translation of the Daxue
âZheng Shuhong
9 âGod Has Conferred Even on the Inferior People a Moral Senseâ: Leggeâs Concept of the âPeopleâ (min) in His Translation of the Book of Documents
âJoachim Gentz
10 Finding Godâs Chinese Name: A Comparison of the Approaches of Matteo Ricci and James Legge
âAlexander Chow
Part 4: Legge and His Legacy
Afterword: James Legge and the Missionary Tradition in British Sinology
âBrian Stanley
Postscript: Living in the Shadows
âChristopher Legge
Index
All interested in James Legge, mission history, Christianity in China, sinology, and Scottish-Chinese relations.