Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
1 Introduction: Literary Turn in the Study of Chinese Christianitybr/> 2 Empire Re-mapped: Image of Britain in Karl Gützlaff’s Novels
1 Westerners/British not “Barbarians”
2 Trading, not “tribute paying”
3 Britain: The “Supreme Nation”
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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
1 Introduction: Literary Turn in the Study of Chinese Christianitybr/> 2 Empire Re-mapped: Image of Britain in Karl Gützlaff’s Novels
1 Westerners/British not “Barbarians”
2 Trading, not “tribute paying”
3 Britain: The “Supreme Nation”
4 Britain upholding the orthodoxy
5 Factors behind Gützlaff’s constructed British image
3 Bible in Fiction: Chinese Protestant Novels of the Late Nineteenth Century
1 Fictional Transformation of Biblical Biographies: Yuese jilüe (Brief Biography of Joseph, 1852)
2 Harmonization and Contextualisation of Gospel Accounts: Zhengdao qimeng (Enlightening the Right Way, 1864)
3 Displacement of Biblical Mythology: Qu mo zhuan (Story of Demon Banishing, 1895)
4 Bible on Stage: Chinese Catholic Dramas of the Republican Period
1 Moralistic and Religious Agenda of Chinese Catholic Literature
2 Dramatizing the Biblical Narratives
3 Edifying and Entertaining Dimensions of Two Joseph Dramas
4 Drama Performance and Communal Transformation
5 Saints Re-membered: Chinese Dramatization of Martyrdom
1 Dramatizing the Martyrdom Stories
2 Martyrdom Narratives of the Maccabees
3 Resolving the Moral Conflict of Martyrdom
6 Popular Reception: Chinese Folk Imagination of Christianity
1 Heavenly Family in Hong Xiuquan’s Dream Vision
2 Image of Jesus in Anti-Christian Pamphlets
3 Journey to Hell in Chinese Catholic Novel
4 Afterlife in Chinese Spiritual Songs
5 Revelation of Jesus in Daoist Planchette Writings
7 Poetic Inspiration: Biblical Imageries in Modern Chinese Poetry
1 The Bible as Devotional Inspiration for Bing Xin
2 The Bible as Ideological Inspiration for Zhou Zuoren
3 The Bible as Archetypal Inspiration for Mu Dan
8 Pilgrims Re-progressed: Christian Interpretation of The Journey to the West
1 Mahayana Christianity and Buddhist Trinity
1.1 Julai as Christ, the Incarnate God
1.2 Kwanyin as the Holy Spirit
2 Huen Chwang as Apostle Paul
3 The Pilgrim’s Progress of Nestorianism
4 “Multi-religious” Kingdom of God
9 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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