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Religion in China

containing a brief account of the three religions of the Chinese, with observations on the prospects of Christian conversion amongst that people

by Joseph Edkins

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

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Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Asian esoteric and internal traditions.

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Taoism”. Retained metadata contains “Taoism” in the subject metadata.

    • Taoism· via Internet Archive
    • Taoism· in subject

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Editions

2 editions cataloged here.

containing a brief account of the three religions of the Chinese, with observations on the prospects of Christian conversion amongst that people

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1878-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : J.R. OsgoodEnglishPublic digitized item

containing a brief account of the three religions of the Chinese, with observations on the prospects of Christian conversion amongst that people

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1884-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : TrübnerEnglishPublic digitized item

Subjects

5 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Cornell University Library
  • Contributing institution: Robarts - University of Toronto
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: toronto
  • Scanner: Kirtas APT 2400
  • Scanner: uoft8
Catalog id
internet-archive:cu31924023203700
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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