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Henry, Katharine,

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"One Blood of All Nations": American Protestant Missionaries in Early Nineteenth-Century China /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	"One Blood of All Nations": American Protestant Missionaries in Early Nineteenth-Century China // Katharine Henry.
作者:	Henry, Katharine,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (263 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-02A.
標題:	American studies. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31482284
ISBN:	9798383691663

"One Blood of All Nations": American Protestant Missionaries in Early Nineteenth-Century China /
Henry, Katharine,

"One Blood of All Nations": American Protestant Missionaries in Early Nineteenth-Century China /Katharine Henry. - 1 electronic resource (263 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.

This project explores the impact that engagement with China had upon American development in the first half of the nineteenth century. I trace development in three ways: 1) the personal development of Protestant missionaries whose lives were changed by emigrating to China, 2) national development in the United States that was powered by trade with China, and 3) religious developments during the Taiping Rebellion that stimulated a diplomatic crisis for American government agents in China.Through archival research, historiography, and rhetorical analysis, I bring together Protestant missionaries Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, W. A. P. Martin, Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman, and Henrietta Shuck to argue that China was the pole star for ambitious Americans eager to turn their postcolonial developing country into a world power and make their nation the leader of the Christian millennium. Missionaries desperately wanted to convert the Chinese masses, but much of their time was spent struggling to learn and write about their adopted country. Given the vast population of China and its civilizational achievements, missionaries insisted that the empire held a major role in God's unfolding plan for the millennium. Female missionaries most often contributed to this goal as teachers. Their aim for the social uplift of Chinese children, particularly girls, challenged long-established Confucian education. Missionaries believed the religious transformation of China required Western science and technology. They endowed technology with spiritual power as material improvements in American society suggested to them that the millennium was imminent. Because science, technology, and the pursuit of knowledge were divine instruments, they would usher in paradise.Because Protestantism was decentralized, missionaries could not control how Chinese audiences interpreted and applied Christian principles. While many dismissed Taiping theology as an illegitimate or hollow attempt at Christian belief, Hong Xiuquan's biblical edits and commentaries illustrate that selectivity, political convenience, and localization are how religious doctrines are formalized. Hong's religious and political authority created challenges for Americans who were unsure how to balance US neutrality during the Taiping Rebellion with upholding existing treaty rights.

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ISBN: 9798383691663Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American studies.
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American missionaries

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