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The Book “Conversations in the Assembly of Angels” ( 天神会课) by N. Bichurin as the First Experience of Creating an Orthodox Religious Text in Chinese
Maiatckii, Dmitri
Maiatckii, Dmitri
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This paper presents a survey of the first Orthodox book in Chinese issued in 1811 in China by member of the 9th Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing (1807-1821) Nikita Bichurin. Five copies of this book are held in Department of the Scientific Library in St. Petersburg State University. The author examines bibliographical characteristics of these copies, discusses some circumstances of the book’s creations including its purposes and textual basis, structure and language features. The main stress in put on the specific ways and methods used by Bichurin for introducing Christian terminology to Chinese people
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2018
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International Journal of Sino-Western Studies