God's Chinese Son (64 page)

       
Genesis,
20:2-13,
Yinshu,
24b-25; Wu and Luo, "Yinshu," 268-69. The parallel story of Abimelech seeing Isaac "sporting" with Rebekah, in Genesis 26:7-9, uses almost identi­cal words to clear Isaac of deceit; Wu and Luo, "Yinshu," 269.

       
Divide is "fen." Genesis 25:31-34, Bibles A and B, 1:34b; Wu and Luo, "Yinshu," 269.

       
Bibles A and B, 1:36—37b; Wu and Luo, "Yinshu," 270-71. Hong purges other refer­ences to wine as an offering—for instance, from Leviticus 23:13 and Numbers 6:20 and 18:27.

       
Wu and Luo, "Yinshu," 281.

       
For all these corrections see Wu and Luo, "Yinshu," 272-73.

       
Ibid., 275. To make space for his own rewriting, Hong cuts Exodus 22:18 altogether.

Chapter 18: The Wrong Man

1.
      
Arrival, in
BPP/Elgin,
19; armaments, Walrond,
Elgin,
190, 192, 195, 198, and
BPP/ Elgin,
35, 40.

2.
       
Earl of Clarendon to Elgin, April 20, 1857,
BPP / Elgin,
2-3, 5. For an analysis of the "Arrow War" that sparked his mission see Fairbank,
Trade,
and Wong,
Arrow War.

3.
 
For the Elgins, father and son, see
DNB,
104-6, 130-31.

4.
 
Oliphant,
Narrative,
1:292-350; Walrond,
Elgin,
210-57.

5.
 
Tianxiong shengzhi,
1:3, dated Daoguang, 28/10/24.

6.
 
Ibid., 1:12b, dated Daoguang, 29/1/16.

7.
 
BPP/Elgin,
444; Walrond,
Elgin,
285.

8.
                               
BPP/Elgin,
        444.

9.
 
Walrond,
Elgin,
285.

10.
 
Oliphant,
Narrative,
2:311.

11.
 
Quotations from ibid., 313-14; see also Walrond,
Elgin,
285;
BPP / Elgin,
455.

12.
 
BPP /Elgin,
454;
TR,
713.

13.
 
BPP /Elgin,
471-72, Wade's translation with romanization modified;
TR,
717.

14.
 
TR,
718-19;
BPP / Elgin,
472-73; Chin,
Shiliao,
95-97.

15.
       
Chinese text in Chin,
Shiliao,
97-98; partly following translations by Thomas Wade in
BPP /Elgin,
473, and
TR,
720.

16.
 
Oliphant,
Narrative,
2:461.

17.
 
Ibid., 454.

18.
Chin
Shiliao,
138-39;
BPP / Elgin,
470;
TR,
721-22.

19.
Walrond,
Elgin,
301-2; on the trip, see
BPP/ Elgin,
470; Oliphant,
Narrative,
2:447-

48.

20.
 
BPP /Elgin,
451, Wade's account.

Chapter 19: New Worlds

1.
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
356-57; Guo Tingyi,
Shishi,
appendix, 23.

2.
 
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
351-56.

3.
 
Xiang,
Ziliao,
2:846, modifying
TR,
1511.

4.
       
TR,
759 n. 7, 760-61 nn. 8-10; see also Wylie,
Memorials,
159-60, for Hamberg; 175- 76 for Burns; 117-22 for Legge; 125-28 for Hobson; Yung,
My Life,
108. Yung had been in the Yale College class of 1854.

5.
 
Pfister, "Legge," pt. 2, p. 34.

6.
 
Legge, "Colony," 169.

7.
 
Pfister, "Legge," pt. 1, p. 44; Legge, "Colony," 172.

8.
 
Legge, "Colony," 171-72.

9.
       
Wylie,
Memorials,
118; Pfister, "Legge," pt. 1, p. 45. Other missionaries had also cham­pioned the use of Shangdi, though it remained a controversial choice to many. A full summary of the various arguments is given in Medhurst,
Dissertation.

10.
 
Legge's view as summarized by Pfister, in "Legge," pt. 1, pp. 48—49.

11.
 
Ibid, pt. 2, pp. 35-36.

12.
 
Welsh,
Hong Kong,
169; Legge, "Colony," 165-66, 171.

13.
Legge, "Colony," 167-68; Welsh,
Hong Kong,
164-66, 218.

14.
       
Legge, "Colony," 165; Welsh,
Hong Kong,
212, on Caldwell, and 152, on entrepre­neurs.

15.
Legge, "Colony," 171.

16.
Pfister, "Legge," pt. 1, p. 44; Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
356.

17.
       
TR,
1512; Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
357, citing Lin-le,
Ti-ping,
1:226; Wylie,
Memorials,
217-18, on Chalmers, who received the letter, Legge being away at the time.

18.
 
TR,
765, 767; Hong Rengan,
Zizheng xinbian,
in
Yinshu,
14, 16.

19.
On insurance,
TR,
769; houses, 771; banks, 765-66; roads, 764, 765; patents, 766.

20.
 
TR,
768-69.

21.
 
TR,
767; a rather similar comment of Hong's is on p. 764.

22.
 
TR, 111,
slight changes from
Zizheng xinbian, in Yinshu,
21.

23.
 
Yung,
My Life,
110.

24.
       
J. S. Burdon, in Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
240; Forrest, "Taipings at Home,"
NCH,
Oct. 19, 1861, also cited ibid, 360.

25.
       
"Questions Recently Addressed to the Kan Wang,"
NCH,
Aug. 11, 1860, also cited in Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
241.

26.
 
NCH,
Aug. 11, 1860.

27.
 
Ibid.

28.
       
Forrest, "Taipings at Home," translating "Kan Wang" and "T'ien Wang." This passage is also printed in Blakiston,
Five Months,
51.

29.
 
TR,
758, some changes following
Zizheng xinbian,
in
Yinshu,
8b.

30.
 
TR,
758.

31.
 
TR,
759;
Zizheng xinbian,
in
Yinshu, 9.

32.
 
For Japan,
TR,
763; for Germans, 760; Scandinavians and France, 761; Russia, 762.

33.
  
TR,
773, modified following
Zizheng xinbian,
in
Yinshu,
22.

34.
 
Curwen,
Deposition,
234 n. 77;
TR,
1525.

35.
 
Curwen,
Deposition,
passim; Guo Tingyi,
Shishi,
appendix, 21.

36.
 
Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
233, on Li's "small keen features" and glasses.

37.
 
Curwen,
Deposition,
109-15, 230-33;
TR,
1524-25.

38.
 
Curwen,
Deposition,
117—19.

39.
  
Brine,
Taeping,
253-54;
TR,
923-24, on the Catholics, and 1119-20.

40.
       
As cited in Lin-le,
Ti-ping,
1:298; this "scenario" is discussed in Wagner,
Heavenly Vision, 113.

41.
       
Brine,
Taeping,
258-59, changing Shanghae to Shanghai and "imps" to "demons";
TR,
1124.

42.
       
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
403-28, has a brilliant analysis of the Anqing (Anking) campaign; Li Xiucheng is rather casual about the loss—Curwen,
Deposition,
130, and 260— 64, citing piercing testimony from Zhao Liewen's diary; Hong Rengan blames Li for the loss,
TR,
1513, 1525-26.

43.
 
Curwen,
Deposition,
121, 244 n. 42.

44.
       
NCH,
Aug. 11, 1860, also cited in Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
243, echoed by Griffith John as quoted in Lin-le,
Ti-ping,
1:294; Wagner,
Heavenly Vision,
59-60.