Reverend Issachar Jacox Roberts and the Taiping Rebellion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3658364 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yuan Chung Teng, Yuan Teng (0000-0001-5559-6110, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-67 |
| Publication date | 1963-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2050633 |
| OpenAlex | W2135843573 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 6 |
Reverend Issachar Jacox Roberts was, as far as is known, the only Western teacher ever to instruct Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, the leader of the Taiping Rebellion. Aware of his special relationship with Hung, Roberts was for many years enthusiastic about Hung's undertakings. This article is concerned mainly with an account of the dealings between the two men.Born in Tennessee in 1802, Roberts studied at the Furman Theological Institution of South Carolina, and was ordained to the ministry in 1828. He preached for some time in Mississippi, where he owned property said to be worth $30,000. Using this property as a financial base, he organized the Roberts Fund and the China Mission Society. Upon arrival in China in 1837, Roberts took the Chinese name of Lo Hsiao-ch'üan (or Lo Heáou-tseuen). For his first five years in China, the missionary worked among the lepers at Macao. When his income became insufficient for his work there, he labored for a time as a saddler, joined the Baptist Mission in 1841, and in 1846 transferred to the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1844 Roberts, who was the first foreigner to live outside the restricted "factory" area, opened a mission in the city of Canton, which he used as a home base for the following twenty-two years of his missionary work. During this period, he returned to the United States only twice. His connection with the Southern Baptist Convention was dissolved in 1852, and thereafter he worked independently. He finally left China in 1866, and died of leprosy in 1871 at Upper Alton, Illinois
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Introduction
The creation of the treaty system
The Canton trade and the Opium War
Dynastic decline and the roots of rebellion
Ch'ing Inner Asia c. 1800
The Taiping Rebellion
The heyday of the Ch'ing order in Mongolia, Sinkiang and Tibet
Self-strengthening
Marxism, Religion and the Taiping Revolution
The Cambridge History of China
The Failure of Hung Jen-k'an's Foreign Policy
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
| Citation span | 1968 - 2016 (49) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |