From Individual Souls to China's Soul: On Ming Qing Chinese Christian Fiction

LI Shi-xue

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214204

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LI Shi-xue. From Individual Souls to China's Soul: On Ming Qing Chinese Christian Fiction[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(2): 301-314. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214204

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LI Shi-xue. From Individual Souls to China's Soul: On Ming Qing Chinese Christian Fiction[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(2): 301-314. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214204

LI Shi-xue. From Individual Souls to China's Soul: On Ming Qing Chinese Christian Fiction[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(2): 301-314. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214204

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LI Shi-xue. From Individual Souls to China's Soul: On Ming Qing Chinese Christian Fiction[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(2): 301-314. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214204

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From Individual Souls to China's Soul: On Ming Qing Chinese Christian Fiction

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214204

LI Shi-xue^,

Academia Sinica, China

Received Date: 2020-06-25
Rev Recd Date: 2020-12-30

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Abstract

Chinese Christian fiction first appeared in late Ming China,but flowered in the Qing Dynasty,when Joseph Prémare,a French Jesuit,began to compose stories in Chinese,the first of which was inspired by Cicero's "Somnium Scipionis." Prémare's writings were followed soon by works by such Protestant writers as Robert Morrison and William Milne,whose "Chang Yuan lianyou xianlun", actually presented like a catechism,circulated widely up to the early Republican era.Prémare and Milne strove to save individual souls from the temptation to worship local pagan deities.But later in the Qing dynasty,more Christians-Chinese as well as foreigners-wrote vivid novels and stories aimed at delivering the entire Chinese nation and saving China's soul.The most salient example is John Fryer's call for stories to rescue China.Although Fryer himself did not write stories,the roughly 150 stories he collected are the best illustration of this writing for the purpose of redemption.
- Christian literature in China,
- Joseph Pré,
- mare,
- William Milne,
- Karl Friedrich August Gü,
- tzlaff

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