Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 570 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781316018316
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. East and South-East Asian history
Content:
Remarkable yet controversial, 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 translating 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. Furthermore, he served as an interpreter for the East India Company. Also reissued in this series are his Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China (1834) and A Sketch of Chinese History (1834). Edited down into two substantial volumes by the Congregational minister Andrew Reed (1787–1862), the present work was published in 1838. It aimed to generate support for the missionary cause by giving Anglophone readers deeper insight into an unfamiliar civilisation. Volume 2 addresses arts and sciences, religion, and government at all levels
Content:
14. Chinese industry: arts and sciences -- 15. Religion -- 16. General remarks on the Chinese government -- 17. The emperor and his court -- 18. Nobility -- 19. The tribunals and courts of the capital -- 20. Board of offices -- 21. Board of revenue -- 22. Board of rites -- 23. Military board -- 24. Board of punishment -- 25. Board of public works -- 26. Provincial government -- 27. Colonial government: office of foreign affairs
Note:
Originally published in London by Smith, Elder and Co. in 1838
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108079440
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108079440
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316018316
