CHINESE CHRISTIANITY.

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The Gospel According to Saint John [English-Chinese bilingual edition]. First edition thus, first printing, of this otherwise untraced Shanghai imprint of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The society sponsored efforts to translate the Bible into Mandarin from the 1870s onwards.Provenance: James Austin Heady (1917-2014), a statistician born to Methodist missionaries in Kuling, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper and a note, perhaps in the hand of one of his parents, on the first page.

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