Journal of three voyages along the coast of China, in 1831, 1832 & 1833: with notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands

The Prussian-born Protestant missionary Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (1803–51) sought to spread Christianity in the Far East. A gifted linguist, he sailed to Siam and worked on a translation of the Bible into Thai. The British missionary Robert Morrison had fired his interest in China, and Gützlaf...

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1. Verfasser: Gützlaff, Karl Friedrich August 1803-1851 (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge library collection. East and South-East Asian history
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Zusammenfassung:The Prussian-born Protestant missionary Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (1803–51) sought to spread Christianity in the Far East. A gifted linguist, he sailed to Siam and worked on a translation of the Bible into Thai. The British missionary Robert Morrison had fired his interest in China, and Gützlaff later focused his evangelising efforts there, learning several dialects and distributing translated literature. The present work, featuring an introductory chapter by fellow missionary William Ellis on Chinese attitudes to foreign influence, was first published in 1834. Gützlaff had left Siam in 1831 in a Chinese junk trading along the coast of China. The next year, as an interpreter aboard an East India Company vessel, he also visited Korea and Okinawa. The third voyage recounted here describes the places and peoples encountered from Canton to Manchuria. Also reissued in this series are Gützlaff's Sketch of Chinese History (1834) and China Opened (1838)
Beschreibung:Originally published in London by F. Westley and A.H. Davis in 1834. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, xciii, 450 pages)
ISBN:9781316018255
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781316018255

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