{"product_id":"scottish-missions-to-china-commemorating-the-legacy-of-james-legge-1815-1897-9789004509634","title":"Scottish Missions to China: Commemorating the Legacy of James Legge (1815-1897)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume explores the important legacy of Scottish missions to China, with a focus on the missionary-scholar and Protestant sinologist par excellence James Legge (1815–1897). It challenges the simplistic caricature of Protestant missionaries as Orientalizing imperialists, but also shows how the Chinese context and Chinese persons “converted” 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors  Notes on Romanization    Introduction   Alexander Chow    Part 1: The Man, James Legge  1 Pulling the Plank Out of One’s Own Eye: Reflective Moments of Transformation Gained from James Legge’s Christian Engagement with Four Notable Chinese Persons   Lauren F. Pfister    2 Psychological Research and the Roots of James Legge’s Resilience   Marilyn L. Bowman    3 Legge in Oxford   David Jasper    Part 2: Scottish Missions in China  4 William Chalmers Burns in China   David J. Reimer    5 China through Women’s Eyes: The Contribution of Female Missionaries in Manchuria to the Image of China at the Turn of the 19th Century   Joanna Baradziej  6 The Anglo–Chinese College as a Bridge between the East and the West in Morrison and Legge’s Time   Gao Zhiqiang    Part 3: Translators and Translations  7 The Translator’s Identity and Its Paradox: James Legge and Gu Hongming   Yang Huilin    8 James Legge’s Hermeneutical Methodology as Revealed in His Translation of the Daxue   Zheng Shuhong    9 “God Has Conferred Even on the Inferior People a Moral Sense”: Legge’s Concept of the “People” (min) in His Translation of the Book of Documents   Joachim Gentz    10 Finding God’s Chinese Name: A Comparison of the Approaches of Matteo Ricci and James Legge   Alexander Chow    Part 4: Legge and His Legacy  Afterword: James Legge and the Missionary Tradition in British Sinology   Brian Stanley  Postscript: Living in the Shadows   Christopher Legge    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210839482711,"sku":"9789004509634","price":51.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scottish-missions-to-china-commemorating-the-legacy-of-james-legge-1815-1897-9789004509634","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}