Print from Zhou Han’s pamphlet, In Accord with the Imperial Edict: Complete Illustrations of t
Print from Zhou Han’s pamphlet, In Accord with the Imperial Edict: Complete Illustrations of the Heretical Religion (c. 1890).Zhou Han (1842-1911) was a Confucian scholar who tenaciously resisted the intrusion of Western / Christian ideas into Chinese society.Top: “The Pigs and Goats Submitting Themselves to the Emperor’s Transforming Rhythm.”The pigs are marked with the characters for Jesus, Teacher, and Disciple. The Goats are marked with the character for West, i.e. Westerner, or Foreigner.Right: “The Ratio-nal Sons of Heaven have paid careful attention to their virtue, and the wild tribes on every side have willingly acknowledged subjection to them.”Left: “All the chiefs of the officers are truly harmonious, and all kinds of animals lead on one another to gambol.”The R-L lines are from the Classic of Poetry.Christianity humbly bows its knee to Confucianism, the Christians submitting themselves to the harmonious rule of the Son of Heaven. -- source link
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