The Bible in early seventeeth-century China / Nicolas Standaert --Father Gabriele M. Allegra O.F.M. (1907-1976) and the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum: the first complete Chinese Catholic translation of the Bible / Arnulf Camps -- The work of lifetimes: why the Union Version took nearly three decades to complete / Jost Zetzsche -- Linguistic aspects of translating the Bible into Chinese / Lihi Yariv-Laor -- Christian Theologoumena in Western translations of the Daoists / Knut Walf -- The interminable term question / Irene Eber -- A transmitter but not a creator: Ho Tsun-Sheen (1817-1871), the first modern Chinese Protestant theologian / Lauren Pfister -- The Bible translations into Miao: Chinese influence versus linguistic autonomy / Joakim Enwall -- The Bible in twentieth-century Chinese fiction / Lewis S. Robinson --Wang Jingzhi's Yesu de fenfu (The instructions by Jesus): a Christian novel? / Raoul David Findeisen -- Mythopoeic warrior and femme fatale: Mao Dun's version of Samson and Delilah / Marian Galik -- Wu Ching-Hsiung's Chinese translation of images of the Most High in the Psalms / Francis K.H. So -- The emerging hermeneutics of the Chinese church: debate between Wu Leichuan and T.C. Chao and the Chinese Christian problematik / Sze-kar Wan -- Twenty years of studies of Biblical literature in the People's Republic of China (1976-1996) / Gong Liang -- "The sickness God"-The sickness man: the problem of imperfection in China and in the West / Wolfgang Kubin.

"The Slovakian literary comparatist and Sinologist Marián Gálik was one of the first scholars to point out the importance of the Christian Bible as a source for secular writing in China. In his Selected Studies, Gálik provides a panoramic view of the Bible's function in twentieth-century Chinese fiction, drama, and poetry. He analyses the different ways in which authors, such as Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Bing Xin, Gu Cheng, and Wang Meng, have appropriated the biblical text. Other themes include recent studies by Chinese scholars on the Bible and comparisons of Chinese translations of biblical texts, namely, the Psalms. Gálik focuses on questions of intertextuality and demonstrates his faith in the possibility of interreligious and intercultural understanding." --Monumenta Serica website.

Contents: IRENE EBER: "The Fountain of Living Waters." Introduction -- Part I: The "Third Covenant" and Interreligious Understanding. Confessions of an Idealist -- The Bible, Modern Chinese Literature, and Intercultural Communication -- The Old Testament of the Bible in Modern Chinese Literary Criticism and Creative Literature -- The Bible in Twentieth Century China against the Background of Psalms Translations -- The Reception of the Bible in the Peoples' Republic of China (1980-1992). Observations of a Literary Comparatist -- A Comment on Three Chinese Books on the Bible -- A Comment on Three Western Books on the Bible in Modern and Contemporary China -- Lü Zhenzhong: One of the Chinese Translators of the Bible.
Part II: The Song of Songs (Šir hašširim) and the Shijing. An Attempt in Comparative Analysis -- Mythopoeic Warrior and femme fatale: Mao Dun's Version of Samson and Delilah — Three Modern Taiwanese Woman Poets (Rongzi, Xia Yu and Siren) on Three Wisdom Books of the Bible -- Temptation of the Princess. Xiang Peiliang's Decadent Version of Biblical Amnon and Tamar -- Young Bing Xin and Her Poetry -- Gu Cheng's Novel Ying'er and the Bible -- Between the Garden of Gethsemane and Golgotha. The Last Night and Day of Jesus in Modern Chinese Literature (1921—1942)-- Matres dolorosae: Musings over Wang Duqing's "Shengmuxiang qian" and Guido Reni's La Crocifissione dei Cappucini -- Parody and Absurd Laughter in Wang Meng's Apocalypse. Musings over the Metamorphosis of the Biblical Vision in Contemporary Chinese Literature -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- References to the Biblical Passages.