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Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology

Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology

Seitz, Jonathan A.

Hardcover

Series: Liu Institute Chinese Christianities

Chinese HistoryGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0268208042
ISBN13: 9780268208042
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Mar 15 2024
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

With a focus on Robert Morrison, Protestant Missionaries in China evaluates the role of nineteenth-century British missionaries in the early development of the cross-cultural relationship between China and the English-speaking world.

As one of the first generation of British Protestant missionaries, Robert Morrison went to China in 1807 with the goal of evangelizing the country. His mission pushed him into deeper engagement with Chinese language and culture, and the exchange flowed both ways as Morrison--a working-class man whose firsthand experiences made him an accidental expert--brought depictions of China back to eager British audiences. Author Jonathan A. Seitz proposes that, despite the limitations imposed by the orientalism impulse of the era, Morrison and his fellow missionaries were instrumental in creating a new map of cross-cultural engagement that would evolve, ultimately, into modern sinology.

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