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Wang Tao’s Diary: excerpts Translated by Sebastian Eicher
No full textIn a little regarded episode from Wang Tao’s diaries, the author tells us about a two-week long journey from Shanghai to Hangzhou and to the West Lake. Wang Tao undertook this journey together with the missionary Griffith John, who at that time was trying to find ways to preach the gospel outside the treaty port of Shanghai. We know the rough outline of this journey from Griffith John’s writings, as it was the second half of a longer journey along the Grand Canal. But Wang Tao’s presence and his notes on it have so far been neglected. This is a loss, as the diary Wang Tao kept offers not only a personal and lively account of the journey, it also gives us some insight in the Chinese perception of the missionaries’ activities and a description of the Hangzhou era before the Taiping would ravage it only a bit more than a year later
Beyond Shanghai: The Inland Activities of the London Missionary Society from 1843 to 1860 according to Wang Tao’s Diaries
No full textBefore the 1858 Treaty of Tianjin the Chinese operations of the London Mission- ary Society’s Protestant missionaries were legally limited to five treaty ports. Yet Shanghai reports attest that the missionaries based there had already consider- ably expanded their influence over Jiangsu and Zhejiang by the mid 1850s. According to their own reports, they broke the rules established by the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing, and routinely traveled beyond the confines of Shanghai to spread the gospel and distribute bibles. They also opened outstations and staffed them with locals. The diaries of Wang Tao (1828–1897), who was an assistant during these years, provide many additional details on these undertak- ings, in particular with regard to the Chinese assistants. This paper consolidates the information available on the LMS missionaries’ itinerations beyond Shanghai before the Treaty of Tianjin and analyses how Wang Tao described his own involvement
Das Hou Han ji des Yuan Hong: Zur Historiographie der Späteren Han-Dynastie
No full textIn the period after the fall of the Later Han Dynasty 後漢 (25-220), numerous historians began to revise and abridge the dynasty's official history work, the Dongguan Han ji 東觀漢記, which had been compiled by imperial order. Within about 200 years, a round dozen works emerged in this way, all of which drew on the same sources, but each told the story a little differently. Only two of these have survived to this day, Fan Ye's 范曄 (398-446) Hou Han shu 後漢 書and Yuan Hong's 袁宏 (330-378) Hou Han ji 後漢紀. However, these are far from being on equal footing. While the Hou Han shu has been included in the circle of 24 dynastic histories and has long been the most important source for the Later Han dynasty, the Hou Han ji disappeared almost completely in its shadow and has often been dismissed as a kind of abridged version of the actual historical work.
This study demonstrates, on the basis of comparisons of the portrayal of important events and figures in the two works and in fragments that survived from other Later Han histories, that in many cases an alternative account and interpretation of events was disregarded, and that reading the Hou Han ji can provide valuable insights into the methods of medieval Chinese historians. For even though both authors drew from the same material base, they did not always ask the same questions and selected their material according to different criteria: The results are two quite different accounts of the Later Han Dynasty
Die Darstellung der Remonstration im Guoyu: Eine erzähltheoretische Untersuchung by Felix Bohlen (review)
No full textReview of Bohlen's book "Die Darstellung der Remonstration im Guoyu: Eine
erzähltheoretische Untersuchung" published in China Review Internationa
Biographies of Two Distinguished Foreigners, By Jiang Dunfu (Translated by Sebastian Eicher)
No full textTranslation of the work "Biographies of Two Distinguished Foreigners" by the Treaty Port Intellectual Jiang Dunfu (1808–1867). The work consists of two biographies of Julius Caesar and George Washington in written in classical literary Chinese
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire, by Henrietta Harrison
No full textReview of Harrison's monography on two 19th century translator
Review: The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History by Andrew Chittick
No full textA Review of Andrew Chittick's monograph The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World Histor
Accommodating cosmopolitan experiences: Jiang Dunfu’s 蔣敦復 and Wang Tao’s 王韜 autobiographical processing of their treaty port years
No full textWith the establishment of the treaty ports in 1842, contact between China and the Western world intensified. In Shanghai, the most extensive exchange of knowledge and ideas took place between the missionaries of the London Missionary Society and their Chinese assistants. By working and translating for the missionaries, these traditionally educated men gained intimate insights into the West and Western learning and established close personal relationships with the missionaries. But in the process, they also became outcasts, as working for Westerners was viewed critically by their contemporaries. This article sets out to analyse the way in which Jiang Dunfu (1808-1867) and Wang Tao (1828-1897) processed and accommodated these cosmopolitan experiences in Shanghai in their prose autobiographies
Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu, edited by Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Michael Nylan. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2021. Pp. 414. $95.00 (hardcover).
No full textReview of the edited volume "Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu", ed. by Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Michael Nyla
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