A New Stream of Spiritual Literature: Bei Cun's The Baptizing River

This essay traces the emergence of new categories of "spiritual writing" in Chinese literature, before offering an interpretation of Bei Cun's 1992 novel The Baptizing River (Shixi de he 施洗的河) as an exemplar. Bei Cun's first novel as a "Christian author" attracted much...

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Main Author: Starr, Chloë 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2019]
In: Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 7, Pages: 1-17
Further subjects:B Baptism
B Shixi de he
B spiritual literature (shenxing xiezuo)
B CHINESE Christian literature
B Bei Cun
B Shi Wei
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