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"The pilgrim’s progress of China : interpreting the record of Enlightenment (1895) as a religious and historical allegory [中國的《天路歷程》 《啟蒙誌要》(1895) 的宗教與歷史寓意]"
Kwong, Chi-Leung
Kwong, Chi-Leung
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"The New Age Novel contest in 1895 gave rise to the earliest set of Chinese-authored Christian novels. Some of the contestants imitated The Pilgrim’s Progress, the classic English devotional literature, in terms of the genre of allegory, the characters, symbols or plot to express their thoughts on national survival. Qimengzhiyao (The Record of Enlightenment) can be treated as a masterpiece among these works. This essay aims to illustrate two levels of meaning hidden behind Qimengzhiyao including the religious and the historical. In the story of Qimengzhiyao the landscapes are used to symbolize the abstract ideas of Christian doctrine and the circumstances that missionaries faced in late-Qing China. This research also enhances our understanding of the reception of The Pilgrim’s Progress in late-Qing China. "
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Paper presented at the 9th International Young Scholars’ Symposium on “Christianity and Chinese Society and Culture,” held in December 2018 by The Centre for Christian Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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2019
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Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture, Chung Chi College, Shatin, Hong Kong