UID:
almahu_9947415615302882
Format:
1 online resource (vi, xciii, 450 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781316018255 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. East and South-East Asian history
Content:
The Prussian-born Protestant missionary Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (1803–51) sought to spread Christianity in the Far East. A gifted linguist, he sailed to Siam and worked on a translation of the Bible into Thai. The British missionary Robert Morrison had fired his interest in China, and Gützlaff later focused his evangelising efforts there, learning several dialects and distributing translated literature. The present work, featuring an introductory chapter by fellow missionary William Ellis on Chinese attitudes to foreign influence, was first published in 1834. Gützlaff had left Siam in 1831 in a Chinese junk trading along the coast of China. The next year, as an interpreter aboard an East India Company vessel, he also visited Korea and Okinawa. The third voyage recounted here describes the places and peoples encountered from Canton to Manchuria. Also reissued in this series are Gützlaff's Sketch of Chinese History (1834) and China Opened (1838).
Note:
Originally published in London by F. Westley and A.H. Davis in 1834.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108079419
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316018255
