Returning To China: Biblical Interpretation in Postcolonial Hong Kong
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...To demonstrate the versatility of his approach, he has read the Bible with wide range of social texts such as circulating folktales like Chinese creation myths with narratives in Genesis (Lee 1994), the poems of Chinese women grieving their sons who fell to the Massacre of Tiananmen Square with Lamentations (Lee 2005) and the handing over of Hong Kong from British colonial governance to mainland Chinese rule with DeuteroIsaiah and Trito-Isaiah (Lee 1999)....
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...I then read the story through the historical account of an iconic Asian figure, Confucius as well as the stories of local Malay Muslim minorities as depicted by Alfian Sa’at in his anthology, Malay Sketches (2012). The second case study takes a closer look at Daniel 3 and 6 which focuses on Daniel and the three Jews being punished for their disobedience to royal edicts....
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...As I elaborate in chapter 4, this would yield the various identities that I bring along to read the Bible in this thesis: biblical scholars from the West, North American Christian fundamentalists, Confucius, Mahatma Gandhi, Emperor Aśoka and from Singapore itself, privileged Chinese Christians, Malay Muslims, political prisoners and the elderly....
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...141 Daniel the Malay Muslim: Between Resistance and Oppression 145 In Conversation: Biblical Scholars, Confucius and Malays 150 Case Study #2: Braving the Furnace of the Lion’s Den in the Lion City 152 Daniel 3 and 6: Tales of Political Intrigue 152 Biblical Scholars: Piety or Politics?...
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...Lee’s article sparked considerable debate and discussion about postcolonialism, biblical interpretation within previously colonized territories, and the role of the biblical text itself (see Chia 1999; Kwok 1999; Sakenfeld 1999; Segovia 1999; Lee 1999b)....
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...Lee (1999a), for example, illuminates some of the debates and struggles of the post-exilic community in Third Isaiah by reading it within his context of Hong Kong after the territory was turned over to China by the British in June 1997, when it became a ‘Special Administrative Region’ of China....
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