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Striving for the "whole duty of man : James Legge and the Scottish Protestant encounter with China : assessing confluences in Scottish nonconformism, Chinese missionary scholarship, Victorian sinology, and Chinese Protestantism / Lauren F. Pfister.
LIBRA BV3427.L42 P45 2004 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pfister, Lauren F.
- Series:
- Scottish studies international ; 34.
- Scottish studies international ; 34
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missionaries--China--Biography.
- Missionaries.
- Missionaries--Great Britain--Biography.
- Sinologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Sinologists.
- Legge, James, 1815-1897.
- Legge, James.
- China.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- James Legge and the Scottish Protestant encounter with China
- Place of Publication:
- Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, ©2004.
- Language Note:
- English text with Chinese glossary in vol. 1 & 2.
- Contents:
- Vol. 1: Tracing Heritages : Dissenter Sabbath culture and James Legge's childhood
- Where the Deveron and Pearl rivers meet : Scottish realism and congregational theology bolstering Legge's missionary imperative
- Adjustments in the shadows of missionary and sinological predecessors : Confrontations and developments in Malacca and HongKong
- Vol. 2 : Through dark valleys : Complications in Legge's missionary duties
- Classical translator, engaged missionary : The forming of HongKong's exemlary missionary-scholar
- Heroic duties : Legge's missionary scholarship and its cultural imperatives
- Forgotten visions within Legge's legacy : Scottish protestant missionary-scholar and victorian sinologist.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820464414
- 9780820464411
- 3631509464
- 9783631509463
- OCLC:
- 55679726
- Publisher Number:
- 99993273439
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