Chinese Narratives in the Documents Collected by the Baling Society in Germany
by Chen Yue
About This Novel
This book studies and analyzes various anthologies written by missionaries and compiled and published by the Baling Society from the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th century. These documents were popular reading materials for German readers to perceive and look at China at that time. Among them, there were nearly 60 volumes of "China Stories", covering Chinese religion and folk beliefs, myths and legends, cultural etiquette, missionary work in China, biographies of Chinese believers and other topics. These works carry Chinese social and cultural information and have greatly influenced and guided German readers' overall understanding of China. Based on the combing of the history of the Baling Society's mission in China and the clarification of the development of the text genre of missionary manuals, this book discusses Chinese beliefs, rituals, and Chinese people's images from the three dimensions of Chinese beliefs, rituals, and images of Chinese people that are mostly mentioned in the missionary documents of the Baling Society. It also explores the typical narrative characteristics and writing purposes of missionaries from the perspective of Orientalism theory.
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