Scottish Missions to China

Alexander Chow is Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and is co-director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity. He is co-editor of the journal Studies in World Christianity (Edinburgh University Press) and is editor of the Chinese Christianities Series (University of Notre Dame Press). He is author of two books, most recently Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity (Oxford University Press 2018).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsNotes on RomanizationIntroductionAlexander ChowPart 1: The Man, James Legge1 Pulling the Plank Out of One’s Own Eye: Reflective Moments of Transformation Gained from James Legge’s Christian Engagement with Four Notable Chinese PersonsLauren F. Pfister2 Psychological Research and the Roots of James Legge’s ResilienceMarilyn L. Bowman3 Legge in OxfordDavid JasperPart 2: Scottish Missions in China4 William Chalmers Burns in ChinaDavid J. Reimer5 China through Women’s Eyes: The Contribution of Female Missionaries in Manchuria to the Image of China at the Turn of the 19th CenturyJoanna Baradziej6 The Anglo–Chinese College as a Bridge between the East and the West in Morrison and Legge’s TimeGao ZhiqiangPart 3: Translators and Translations7 The Translator’s Identity and Its Paradox: James Legge and Gu HongmingYang Huilin8 James Legge’s Hermeneutical Methodology as Revealed in His Translation of the DaxueZheng Shuhong9 “God Has Conferred Even on the Inferior People a Moral Sense”: Legge’s Concept of the “People” (min) in His Translation of the Book of DocumentsJoachim Gentz10 Finding God’s Chinese Name: A Comparison of the Approaches of Matteo Ricci and James LeggeAlexander ChowPart 4: Legge and His LegacyAfterword: James Legge and the Missionary Tradition in British SinologyBrian StanleyPostscript: Living in the ShadowsChristopher LeggeIndex