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2022/23 School of Chinese Scholar Seminar

太平天國的先聲？

郭實獵、福漢會與晚清的聖經翻譯及流傳

Herald of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? 

The Late-Qing Bible Translated and Disseminated by Karl Gützlaff and the Chinese Union

主講人   Speaker: 李以清  博士  Dr. LI Yiqing, Crystal

與談人 Discussant: 黎子鵬 教授 Prof. LAI Tsz Pang, John

主持人Moderator: 宋剛 博士 Dr. SONG Gang

Date & Time: December 2, 2022 (Fri) 17:00-18:30pm

Language: Putonghua

Mode of Delivery: Face-to-face & Online Broadcasting (via Zoom)

Venue: CRT-7.30, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU 

Zoom Meeting Details: 

https://hku.zoom.us/j/91873841457?pwd=Z1Y1Q3R0TXdqMk9qMnlNM3Z3MDN4UT09 

Meeting ID: 918 7384 1457

Password: 964390

摘要：太平天國深受基督新教影響，天王洪秀全、干王洪仁玕皆曾求道於福漢會（簡稱漢會）西教士。作為最早培養華人自傳的組織，漢會由普魯士傳教士郭實獵（1803-1851）創立於香港。太平天國欽定的聖經，修訂自郭實獵翻譯、漢會出版派發的漢文聖經。是次報告，聚焦漢會聖經譯本，梳理其版本源流，基於稀見的漢會成員手稿，探尋該會的內部結構與傳教模式。

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was deeply influenced by Protestantism. Both its Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan and the Shield King Hong Rengan were proselytized by Western missionaries from the Chinese Union. The latter, founded in Hong Kong by the Prussian missionary Karl F. A. Gützlaff, was the first Chinese Protestant missionary society to train Chinese converts on self-propagation. The official Bible of the Heavenly Kingdom was revised from Gützlaff’s Chinese translation, and published and distributed by the Chinese Union. This presentation re-examines the evolution of this Chinese Bible, exploring rare and almost neglected manuscripts to uncover new information on the Chinese Union's idealised internal structure and approach to propagation.

簡介：李以清     香港中文大學宗教研究博士，現為北京大學哲學系宗教學系博士後，兼任香港大學中文學院、漢語基督教文化研究所訪問學者。研究領域：宗教與文學跨學科研究、中國基督教史、中西文學文化比較。

Dr. LI Yi Qing Crystal holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University. She also serves as a visiting scholar at The University of Hong Kong and the Institute of Sino-Christian Studies. Her research interests are the interdisciplinary study of religion and literature, the history of Christianity in China, and Sino-West comparative literature and culture.

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