Chinese Christians : Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong
Carl T. Smith
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hong Kong : : Hong Kong University Press, , 2005.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (301 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Plates; Introduction to the Paperback Edition; Foreword; Introduction; 1 The Morrison Education Society and theMoulding of its Students; 2 The Formative Years of the Tong Brothers,Pioneers in the Modernization of China's Commerce and Industry; 3 Translators, Compradores, and Government Advisers; 4 Friends and Relatives of Taiping Leaders; 5 Sun Yat-sen's Baptism and Some Christian Connections; 6 The Emergence of a Chinese Elite in Hong Kong; 7 The English-educated Chinese Elite in Nineteenth-century Hong Kong; 8 The Hong Kong Church and Nineteenth-century Colonial Attitudes. - 9 The Hong Kong Situation as it Influenced the Protestant Church10 The Early Hong Kong Church and Traditional Chinese Ideas; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index. - Every so often a work of history appears that radically changes our understanding of people, place and period. Chinese Christian is such a work. This book asks questions about Hong Kong that have never been asked before. It shows that the leaders of Chinese society had a far greater role in shaping early Hong Kong history than earlier historians had believed.
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| Geografisk emneord | Hongkong : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01986
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| ISBN | 9622096883
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