Cross culture and faith : the life and work of James Mellon Menzies /

Cross culture and faith : the life and work of James Mellon Menzies /

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Author / Creator:Dong, Linfu, 1961-
Imprint:Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2005.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 329 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Language:English
Subject:
Menzies, James M. -- (James Mellon), -- 1885-1957.
Presbyterian Church in Canada -- Missions -- China -- History.
Presbyterian Church in Canada.
Missions, Canadian -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Archaeologists -- China -- Biography.
Missionaries -- China -- Biography.
Archaeologists -- Canada -- Biography.
Missionaries -- Canada -- Biography.
Antiquities.
Archaeologists.
Missionaries.
Missions.
Missions, Canadian.
Henan Sheng (China) -- Antiquities.
Canada.
China.
China -- Henan Sheng.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196706
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9781442673618
1442673613
1282028898
9781282028890
0802038697
9780802038692
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-321) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:James Mellon Menzies (1885-1957) was a Canadian engineer, Presbyterian missionary, and archaeologist active in China in the 1920s and 1930s. In a tradition that saw archaeology as a means of gathering artefacts for the collections of Western museums, Menzies believed in collecting for the people of China. He also saw his archaeological work as an extension of his missionary work, connecting, through his discoveries, the religious beliefs of ancient China to those of evangelical Christianity. In Cross Culture and Faith, Linfu Dong sheds new light on the modern encounter between China and the West through Menzies's life, work, and thought. He elucidates the difficult 'negotiation' processes that Menzies endured on multiple levels and with multiple forces, including Chinese nationalism, Western imperialism, the evangelical Mission, and his own personal interest in Chinese archaeology within that world. Despite his belief in assuring Chinese artefacts remained in China, some of Menzies's personal collection was donated to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in British Columbia. This has assured his place in the cultural memory of both East and West - appropriate, since his life so often straddled the two worlds.
Other form:Print version: Dong, Linfu, 1961- Cross culture and faith. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2005 9780802038692

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