Translation, transmission and indigenization of Christianity in nineteenth-century China: south-to-north travel of the disguised San Zi Jing by Medhurst

Abstract The Chinese traditional educational primer San Zi Jing (三字经) was immensely appreciated by Western missionaries, who frequently leveraged it to spur Chinese-language learning or to decipher Chinese thought. Walter Henry Medhurst (1796–1857), affiliated with the London Missionary Society (LMS...

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Published in:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Main Authors: Pei Wang, Mingwu Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2024-04-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02981-y