Hakka Chinese Confront Protestant Christianity, 1850-1900: With the Autobiographies of Eight Hakka Christians, and Commentary

by Jessie G. Lutz, Rolland R. Lutz

Overview

This work focuses on the 19th-century mission conducted by Chinese evangelists among the Hakka, an ethnic minority in south China. The principal part of the text comprises the autobiographies of eight pioneer missionaries who offer insight into village life and customs of the Hakka people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765600370
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/1997
Series:	Studies on Modern China
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jessie Gregory Lutz, Rolland Ray Lutz

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Biography of Jiang Jiaoren 3. Biography of Zhang Fuxing 4. Biography ofDai Wenguang 5. Biography of Xu Fuguang 6. Biography of Zhang Zhongmu 7. Autobiography ofLai Xinglian 8. Biography of Zhang Yunfa 9. The Life of the Departed Deacon Li Zhenggao 10. Poverty in the Highlands 11. Geomancy, Spirits and Souls, Death and Burial Rituals 12. Social Disorder, Lineage Feuds, and Banditry 13. Hakka Women 14. Appeals of Christianity and Chinese Religious Sects 15. Deterrants and Hardships 16. Arrival of Westerners and Persecution 17. Challenges to Confucian Society: Women 18. Parochial Education 19. Autonomy, Expansion, and Indigenization 20. Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

Commemorates the dedicated work of both the initiators of the Basel China mission: Karl G<:u>tzlaff, Theodor Hamberg, and Rudolf Lechler, and the earliest Chinese evangelists: Jiang Jiaoren, Zhang Fuxing, Dai Wenguang, Xu Fuguang, Zhang Zhongmu, Lai Xinglian, Zhang Yunfa, and Li Zhenggao. The reconstruction of their lives and work offer an unusual opportunity to look at peasant life in the interior of South China and at the village level. Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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