자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0017163013

International Standard Book Number  

9798383691663

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

378

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Henry, Katharine.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill., 2024

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Physical Description  

263 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Gura, Philip F.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024.

Summary, Etc.  

요약This project explores the impact that engagement with China had upon American development in the first half of the nineteenth century. I trace development in three ways: 1) the personal development of Protestant missionaries whose lives were changed by emigrating to China, 2) national development in the United States that was powered by trade with China, and 3) religious developments during the Taiping Rebellion that stimulated a diplomatic crisis for American government agents in China.Through archival research, historiography, and rhetorical analysis, I bring together Protestant missionaries Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, W. A. P. Martin, Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman, and Henrietta Shuck to argue that China was the pole star for ambitious Americans eager to turn their postcolonial developing country into a world power and make their nation the leader of the Christian millennium. Missionaries desperately wanted to convert the Chinese masses, but much of their time was spent struggling to learn and write about their adopted country. Given the vast population of China and its civilizational achievements, missionaries insisted that the empire held a major role in God's unfolding plan for the millennium. Female missionaries most often contributed to this goal as teachers. Their aim for the social uplift of Chinese children, particularly girls, challenged long-established Confucian education. Missionaries believed the religious transformation of China required Western science and technology. They endowed technology with spiritual power as material improvements in American society suggested to them that the millennium was imminent. Because science, technology, and the pursuit of knowledge were divine instruments, they would usher in paradise.Because Protestantism was decentralized, missionaries could not control how Chinese audiences interpreted and applied Christian principles. While many dismissed Taiping theology as an illegitimate or hollow attempt at Christian belief, Hong Xiuquan's biblical edits and commentaries illustrate that selectivity, political convenience, and localization are how religious doctrines are formalized. Hong's religious and political authority created challenges for Americans who were unsure how to balance US neutrality during the Taiping Rebellion with upholding existing treaty rights.

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American studies.

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American literature.

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American history.

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Comparative literature.

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American missionaries

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China

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Cultural exchange

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Nineteenth century

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Taiping Rebellion

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Technology

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill English and Comparative Literature

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Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.

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