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By Roman Malek
August 24, 2021
The contributions in this volume were mostly first presented at the conference "Research on Nestorianism in China. Zhongguo jingjiao yanjiu 中國景教研究" held in Salzburg, 20– 26 May 2003. Like the conference, the volume explores the subject of "Nestorianism" (jingjiao, "Luminous Religion") in a variety ...
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By S. J. Deiwiks, B. Führer, T. Geulen
June 30, 2014
Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, May 10-12, 2012. This volume consists of selected papers from a cross-disciplinary symposium, held by the Ostasien-Institut (OAI, East Asia Research ...
By John Lai
March 30, 2012
This book constitutes a pioneering and comprehensive text-in-context study of the translation of Christian tracts (from English into Chinese) by Protestant missionaries in nineteenth-century China. It focuses on the large body of hitherto widely neglected Protestant Chinese books and tracts, ...
By John DeFrancis
June 30, 2011
Die chinesische Schrift galt lange Zeit als ideographisch – man glaubte, dass jedes Schriftzeichen eine Idee oder Vorstellung unmittelbar wiedergab. Gerade deshalb erschien sie vielen Gelehrten und Wissenschaftlern als Vorbild für ein universales Schriftsystem. Diesen „Mythos der Ideographie" und ...
By Miroslav Kollár
June 30, 2011
P. Franz Xaver Biallas SVD war eine Schlüsselfigur im Engagement der Steyler Missionare für das chinesische Bildungswesen in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als Dozent prägte er die Katholische Universität Fu Jen (Beijing), die erste und einzige Hochschule, die von der SVD in China 1933-...
By Roman Malek, Gianni Criveller
June 30, 2010
This Festschrift is presented to Father Angelo Lazzarotto P.I.M.E. on the occasion of his 85th birthday on May 14, 2010. It is a personal homage from editors, authors, and congratulants to a dear friend, a humble priest and missionary, a scholar, a person of dialogue, an advisor, a sensitive ...
By Renata Fu-Sheng Franke, Wolfgang Franke
June 30, 2009
Vor gut einhundert Jahren unternahm Otto Franke, während seiner Tätigkeit als Dolmetscher an den deutschen Konsulaten und der Kaiserlichen Gesandtschaft in China, mehrere Reisen in das Landesinnere sowie nach Japan, Formosa und Korea. In seinem Nachlass fanden sich Tagebuchaufzeichnungen dieser ...
By Peter Cheng-Main Wang
June 30, 2007
Contextualization in the study of the history of Christianity in China has become increasingly popular in recent years. It has become a key research criterion in evaluating the strategies of Christian missions, of missionary behavior, of conflicts between Christian and local cultures, and of the ...
By Hartmut Walravens, Thomas Zimmer
June 30, 2007
Richard Wilhelm, protestantischer Pfarrer in Qingdao und spater Professor fur Sinologie und Direktor des China-Instituts in Frankfurt, versuchte die chinesische Kultur einem breiten Publikum in Deutschland zuganglich zu machen. Seine Ubersetzungen klassischer und philosophischer Schriften sind ...
By Thoralf Klein, Reinhard Zöllner
June 30, 2005
missions in China and intercultural exchange between East Asia and the West in the 19th century." Peter Vamos in: Acta Orient. Hung. Aus dem Inhalt: THORALF KLEIN und REINHARD ZOLLNER: Einleitung. Karl Gutzlaff als Kulturvermittler REINHARD ZOLLNER: Gutzlaffs Japanreise 1837 und das Bojutsu ...
By Karl Josef Rivinius
June 30, 2004
With this monograph Rivinius has added an important dimension toward understanding the historical background of the oldest school of Sinology and Oriental studies on the European continent that has taught Mandarin Chinese since 1742 and Hindi and Urdu since 1878. John W. Witek in The Catholic ...
By Eleanor Wu
June 30, 2004
More than 700 established Chinese folk religious temples on the island of Taiwan today give ample evidence of the fact that they are not strictly just Buddhist, Taoist, or Confucian, but rather a combination of these three religions plus other elements of a magico-religious nature, thus in practice...
