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Cross Culture and Faith: The Life and Work of James Mellon Menzies
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Cross Culture and Faith: The Life and Work of James Mellon Menzies Hardback - 2005 - 2nd Edition

by Linfu Dong

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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.

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'I look back now to my childhood and think of our old home in Clinton,' wrote James Mellon Menzies in 1919, when he congratulated his father on his eighty-second birthday.

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  • Title Cross Culture and Faith: The Life and Work of James Mellon Menzies
  • Author Linfu Dong
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 370
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Toronto Press, Toronto
  • Publication date September 10, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780802038692 / 0802038697
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Missionaries - China, Archaeologists - China
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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University of Toronto Press, 2005. vii, 329 pp. The author " ... sheds new light on the modern encounter between China and the west through Menzies's life, work and thought." 24 apges of b&w photos. Red cloth. DJ has some very monor edge wear. A bright clean copy. . Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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