{"id":2240,"date":"2015-06-10T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2015-06-09T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T14:15:03","slug":"christ-or-confucius-which","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2015\/06\/10\/christ-or-confucius-which\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ or Confucius, Which?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christ or Confucius, Which?<\/em> is just one of the book titles now on display in New College Library, in honour of the conference being held on James Legge and Scottish Missions to China<\/a> at\u00a0New College\u00a0on 11-13 June 2015.<\/p>\n

\"Macgowan,<\/a>

Macgowan, John. Christ or Confucius, Which? Or, the story of the Amoy Mission. London : London Missionary Society, 1889. New College Library sMR 5 McG<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Henry,<\/a>

Henry, B.C. The Cross and the Dragon ; or, Light in the Broad East. London: S.W. Partridge & Co, 1885. New College Library sMR 5 Hen<\/p><\/div>\n

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The\u00a0authors of these works were contemporaries of\u00a0James Legge (1815-1897), who\u00a0was a missionary and scholar of Chinese.\u00a0He became Principal of the Anglo-Chinese College in Malacca established in 1818 by the pioneering protestant missionary Robert Morrison (1782\u20131834). In 1842 he was put in charge of the London Missionary Society’s mission house in Hong Kong where he spent a third of his life. He became an accomplished\u00a0translator of Chinese Classical texts. Returning home to Scotland in 1873, he then\u00a0\u00a0took up the newly endowed chair of Chinese at Oxford University. Many editions of his works are held in the University of Edinburgh Library, with several at New College Library.<\/p>\n

\"Legge,<\/a>

Legge, James. The notions of the Chinese concerning God and spirits : with an examination of the defense of an essay, on the proper rendering of the words Elohim and Theos, into the Chinese language, by William J. Boone … \/ Hongkong : Printed at the “Hongkong Register” office, 1852. New College Library Z.1763<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Legge,<\/a>

Legge, James. The sacred books of China : the texts of Confucianism \/ Part 1, The Shu\u0302 King The religious portions of the Shih King The Hsia\u0302o King.
Oxford : Clarendon, 1899. New College Library C2\/a4<\/p><\/div>\n

Christine Love-Rodgers, Academic Support Librarian – Divinity<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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