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Chan, Chi Him. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese; includes Chinese. / Abstract / Acknowledgement / Table of Contents / Notes on the Style / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Christianity and Late Qing China (1860-1900) / Chapter 1.2 --- The Sources and Their Authors / Chapter 1.3 --- Outline of the Thesis / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Literature Review / Chapter 2.1: --- Works on Chinese Protestant Christians in Late Qing / Chapter 2.1.1: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' Reception of the Bible / Chapter 2.1.2: --- Historical Context of Chinese Protestant Christians / Chapter 2.1.3: --- History of Translation of the Chinese Bible / Chapter 2.2: --- Methodological Review / Chapter 2.2.1: --- Challenges from Hermeneutic Theories / Chapter 2.2.2: --- Hermeneutical Communities and Hermeneutical Strategies / Chapter 2.2.3: --- Cultural Differences and Linguistic Peculiarity / Chapter Chapter 3: --- The General Reception of the Bible by Chinese Protestant Christians / Chapter 3.1: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' General Attitudes towards the Bible / Chapter 3.2: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' Reception of the Old Testament / Chapter 3.3: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' Reception of the New Testament / Chapter Chapter 4: --- "Christianity, Heterodoxy and Social Order" / Chapter 4.1: --- Late Qing Context: Christianity as Heterodoxy / Chapter 4.1.1: --- Legacy of the Taiping Rebellion / Chapter 4.1.2: --- Mingjiao and Christianity / Chapter 4.1.3: --- "Sorcery, Rebellion and Heterodoxy" / Chapter 4.1.4: --- Conflicts over the Building of Churches / Chapter 4.2: --- The Decline of the Qing Dynasty / Chapter 4.2.1: --- The Corruption of the Qing Administration / Chapter 4.2.2: --- The Advance of the West and the Decline of the Qing Court / Chapter 4.3: --- Jesus and his Kingdom in Context / Chapter 4.3.1: --- The Background of the Reception of the Kingdom of Heaven / Chapter 4.3.2: --- The Kingdom of Heaven as the Kingdom for the Dead / Chapter 4.3.3: --- The Kingdom of Heaven Promotes Social Order / Chapter Chapter 5: --- "The Bible, Chinese Traditions and Confucianism" / Chapter 5.1: --- Confucianism and Chinese Traditional Values / Chapter 5.1.1: --- The Development of Academic Confucianism until Late Qing / Chapter 5.1.2: --- The Three Sects and the Tradition of Moral Books / Chapter 5.2: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' Interpretation of the Bible / Chapter 5.2.1: --- Accusation of Violation of Filial Piety and Christians' Response / Chapter 5.2.2: --- The Idea of Reward and Punishment according to Human Behavior / Chapter 5.2.3: --- Salvation on both Morality and Faith / Chapter 5.3: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' Attitudes towards Confucianism / Chapter 5.3.1: --- The Real Heir of Confucianism / Chapter 5.3.2: --- A Tide of Anti-Confucianism? / Chapter Chapter 6: --- Conclusion / Appendix: List of Transliteration of Name used in this Thesis / Bibliography

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In the Victorian novel, gender-based social norms dictated appropriate behaviour. Female wrongdoing was not only judged according to the law, but also according to the idealized conception of womanhood. It was this implicit cultural measure, and how far the woman contravened the feminine norms of society, that defined her criminal act rather than the act itself or the injury her act inflicted. When a woman deviated from the Victorian construction of the ideal woman, she was stigmatized and labelled. The fallen woman was viewed as a moral menance, a contagion. Foreign women who committed crimes were judged for their 'lack of Englishness.' Insanity evolved into not only a medical explanation for bizarre behaviour, but also a legal explanation for criminal behaviour. Finally, the habitual woman criminal and the infanticidal mother were seen as unnatural. Regardless of the crime committed, female criminals were ostracized and removed from 'respectable' English society. / vii, 163 leaves ; 29 cm.

Anthony Comstock was a moral crusader who abhorred all things lewd and obscene, and who was successful in introducing the Comstock Law to help his fight against it. His lifelong battle against vice at the end of the nineteenth-century had an impact on literature and the literary world as it transitioned from Victorian prudery to modernist realism. Comstock’s influence negatively affected publishers, distributers, and writers, in particular, canonical Americans Walt Whitman and Theodore Dreiser. His methods were unconventional, and in the name of morality, Comstock often behaved immorally to achieve his goals of protecting youth from being corrupted by obscenity. The question of the value of censorship was present then, as it still endures today, and centered on the potential harm of viewing or reading obscene materials. Although Comstock presented an impressive record of confiscations and arrests, his crusade did not have a lasting effect beyond the fin de siècle. / vi, 99 leaves ; 29 cm

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