Christianity and education in modern China / edited by Wong Man Kong and George Kam Wah Mak.

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2025

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one : the contexts. Everything is my concern : characterizing modern Chinese education / Thomas H. C. Lee -- The crisis of mission education in republican China, 1922-1929 : the case of Harold Henry Rowley / Brian Stanley -- Part two : Christian educators. "Going forth to teach, we shall have learnt" : F. S. Drake at Shantung Christian University/Cheeloo University and his ebrace of Chinese culture / Wai Luen Kwok -- Christianity and medical education in China in the Second World War : Gordon King and his wartime adventures and the interconnectedness between China and Hong Kong / Wong Man Kong -- Christian efforts in mass education of republican China : Zhang Xueyan and Xie Songgao's Christian literary work as examples / Chen Jianming -- An unfulfilled ideal : Zhu Jingnong's educational ideas and practices / Jiafeng Liu

Part three : new initiatives. A project of national transformation in China : Yu Rizhang's promotion of social education / Peter Chen-main Wang -- A Protestant response to the drive for mass literacy in early republican China : the Phonetic Promotion Committee and its work, 1918-1922 / George Kam Wah Mak -- A college student's rural journey : early sociology and anthropology in China seen through fieldwork on Sichuan's secret society / Di Wang -- Part four : the legacies. Extracting the essence of Sino-Western interaction : insights from the educational endeavors of Chinese Christian colleges / Ma Min -- A competitive advantage in higher education : the practice and realization of whole-person education at Chung Yuan Christian University / Leah Yiya Lee -- Developing the whole person : revisiting the history and mission of Christian higher education in Asia / Wai Ching Angela Wong.

Acknowledgments -- List of figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Conventions -- Introduction -- The emergence of the Mandarin Protestant Bible and the idea of Tongxing Mandarin in Chinese Protestant Bible translation -- Mandarin : the Lingua Franca of the officials or the common language? -- Was there a standard Mandarin? -- The emergence of the Mandarin Protestant Bible -- Towards a Tongxing Mandarin : a prelude to Mandarin as the national language of China -- Institutional patronage and the Mandarin Bible as the Tongxing Bible in China -- The British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) -- The BFBS in China -- How did the BFBS promote Mandarin Bible translation and circulation? -- Financial sponsorship -- Honorary roll -- Colportage system -- The BFBS'S ideological control over Mandarin Bible translation -- The Greek text of the Mandarin Union version -- The 'Without note or comment' principle and the BFBS'S translational helps for the Mandarin Bible -- The use of the Mandarin Bible and the promotion of Mandarin as Guoyu -- The Mandarin Bible, the building of a biblical and literate Chinese church, and the promotion of Mandarin as Guoyu -- How did the Mandarin Bible as a text promote the use of Mandarin as Guoyu? -- In Church-related settings -- Outside the Church -- Biblical Mandarin and modern Chinese lexicon -- Fandui 反對 -- Shijie 世界. -- Xiaoxi 消息 -- Yijian 意見 -- Ziyou 自由 -- Biblical Mandarin and modern Chinese grammar -- The transposition of yinwei 因為 subordinate clause -- The expanded uses of the bei 被 passive construction -- The increasing use of yi 一 as a marker of indefiniteness -- The expanded uses of zai 在 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of biblical verses -- General index.

This book represents the first monograph-length study of the relationship between Protestant Bible translation and the development of Mandarin from a lingua franca into the national language of China. Drawing on both published and unpublished sources, this book looks into the translation, publication, circulation and use of the Mandarin Bible in late Qing and Republican China, and sets out how the Mandarin Bible contributed to the standardization and enrichment of Mandarin. It also illustrates that the Mandarin Union Version, published in 1919, was involved in promoting Mandarin as not only the standard medium of communication but also a marker of national identity among the Chinese people, thus playing a role in the nation-building of modern China. – publisher note.

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