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The man awakened from dreams : one man's life in a north China village, 1857-1942.
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ISBN: 0804767467 1423716639 9781423716631 9780804767460 0804750688 9780804750684 0804750696 9780804750691 Year: 2005 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.) Stanford university press

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This book is a study of everyday life in rural north China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century told through the story of one man's life.


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The missionary's curse and other tales from a Chinese Catholic village
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ISBN: 0520954726 9780520954724 1299587798 9781299587793 9780520273115 0520273117 9780520273122 0520273125 Year: 2013 Volume: 26 Publisher: Berkeley

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The Missionary's Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic rituals and teachings for their own purposes, only to find themselves in conflict with the orthodoxy of Franciscan missionaries arriving from Italy. The village's long religious history, combined with the similarities between Chinese folk religion and Italian Catholicism, forces us to rethink the extreme violence committed in the area during the Boxer Uprising. The author also follows nineteenth century Chinese priests who campaigned against missionary control, up through the founding of the official church by the Communist Party in the 1950's. Harrison's in-depth study provides a rare insight into villager experiences during the Socialist Education Movement and Cultural Revolution, as well as the growth of Christianity in China in recent years. She makes the compelling argument that Catholic practice in the village, rather than adopting Chinese forms in a gradual process of acculturation, has in fact become increasingly similar to those of Catholics in other parts of the world.

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HISTORY / Asia / General. --- Catholic Church --- History. --- Shanxi Sheng (China) --- Shan-hsi sheng (China) --- Sansei-shō (China) --- Shan-hsi sheng kung shu (China) --- Shanxi (China : Province) --- Shansi, China --- Shan-hsi sheng jen min cheng fu --- Shanxi Province (China) --- Shansi Province (China) --- Shansi (China : Province) --- 山西省 (China) --- Folklore. --- Religious life and customs. --- S13B/0400 --- China: Christianity--Roman Catholicism: general works --- Catholic Church -- China -- Shanxi Sheng -- History.. --- Shanxi Sheng (China) -- Religious life and customs.. --- Shanxi Sheng (China) -- Folklore. --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Shanxi Sheng (China) - Religious life and customs. --- Shanxi Sheng (China) - Folklore. --- boxer rebellion. --- boxer uprising. --- catholic practice. --- catholic rituals. --- catholic. --- china. --- chinese folk religion. --- chinese history. --- chinese priests. --- chinese village. --- chinese. --- christian history. --- christianity. --- communist party. --- cultural revolution. --- engaging. --- extreme violence. --- folk tales. --- franciscan missionaries. --- global themes. --- globalizing church. --- government and governing. --- historical. --- history. --- intense. --- italian catholicism. --- political. --- power of god. --- religion. --- religious history. --- socialist education. --- stories of faith. --- villages.


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The perils of interpreting : the extraordinary lives of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire
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ISBN: 9780691225456 9780691225470 0691225478 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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An impressive new history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two language interpreters who participated in the famed Macartney embassy in 1793The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East’s disinterest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney’s two interpreters at that meeting—Li Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton. Who were these two men? How did they intervene in the exchanges that they mediated? And what did these exchanges mean for them? From Galway to Chengde, and from political intrigues to personal encounters, Harrison reassesses a pivotal moment in British-China relations. She shows that there were Chinese who were familiar with the West, but growing tensions endangered those who embraced both cultures and would eventually culminate in the Opium Wars.Harrison demonstrates that the Qing court’s ignorance about the British did not simply happen, but was manufactured through the repression of cultural go-betweens like Li and Staunton. She traces Li’s influence as Macartney’s interpreter, the pressures Li faced in China as a result, and his later years in hiding. Staunton interpreted successfully for the British East India Company in Canton, but as Chinese anger grew against British imperial expansion in South Asia, he was compelled to flee to England. Harrison contends that in silencing expert voices, the Qing court missed an opportunity to gain insights that might have prevented a losing conflict with Britain.Uncovering the lives of two overlooked figures, The Perils of Interpreting offers a valuable argument for cross-cultural understanding in a better-connected world.

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ISBN: 9780340741344 Year: 2001 Publisher: London Hodder Education

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The making of the republican citizen : political ceremonies and symbols in China 1911-1929
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ISBN: 0198295197 Year: 1999 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Natives of Formosa : British reports of the Taiwan indigenous people, 1650-1950.
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ISBN: 9579976791 Year: 2001 Publisher: Taipei SMC publishing

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