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From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs: Changing Concepts of xin ? from Traditional to Modern Chinese(19 Religion in Chinese Societies)

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Philip Clart, Christian Meyer,

Brill (Publisher)

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2023

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Language and Linguistics Linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

By: Philip Clart, Christian Meyer | Publisher: Brill | Released: 30 Mar 2023

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What does the Chinese term xin 信 mean? How does it relate to the concept of faith in a Western sense? How far does it still denote “being trustworthy” in its ancient Confucian sense? When did major shifts occur in its long history of semantics that allowed later Christian missionaries to use the term regularly as a translation for the concept of believing in gods or God?

This volume offers a broad picture of the semantic history of this Chinese term, throwing light on its semantic multi-layeredness shaped by changing discursive contexts, interactions between various ideological milieus, and transcultural encounters.