臺勢教會 The Taiwanese Making of the Canada Presbyterian Mission Contributor(s): Dodge, Mark A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1648891195 ISBN-13: 9781648891199 Publisher: Vernon Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - East - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism - Religion | Christian Ministry - Missions |
Dewey: 266.008 |
LCCN: 2020947486 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.17 lbs) 280 pages |
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Publisher Description: "臺勢教會 The Taiwanese Making of the Canada Presbyterian Mission" explores the Canadian Presbyterian Mission to Northern Taiwan, 1872-1915. The Canada Presbyterian Mission has often been portrayed as one of the nineteenth- century's most successful missions, and its founder, George Leslie Mackay, has been called the most successful Protestant Missionary of all time. Mark Dodge challenges the heroic narrative by exploring the motives and actions of the Taiwanese actors who supported and established the mission. Religious leaders, teachers, doctors, and businessmen from Northern Taiwan collaborated to build a strong and vital mission, whose phenomenal success brought fame and status to Mackay and their cause. In turn, this status provided a protective space in which these Taiwanese patrons were able to exert significant economic and political autonomy in spite of pressures from competing colonial interests. This book will be of particular interest to students and historians of nineteenth-century East Asia as well as scholars of comparative colonialism, with a focus on missionary history and cultural colonialism. |
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