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Tadeusz Różewicz, a 20th-century Polish poet, travelled to China in 1958. He wrote several prosaic texts about this travel and about his impression of China: “Sen kwiatu, serce smoka”, “Dwa skoki i już Pekin”, “Przelot” and “W drodze”. He sees stewardesses as actresses in a kind of theatre, he thinks about the psychical condition of a humans on the board of a plane. He writes about European and Chinese part of Shanghai’s identity, about Chinese characters’ meaning, about Chinese people and their Four Pests Campaign. An important part is the description of a Four Pests Exhibition. The poet sees China as a different world and he knows that many facts have been hidden.
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In this paper, I describe some aspects of the process of inculturation of Christian theology to the Chinese mentality. In ancient China, there was no such thing as a person of God. The deity was Heaven (tian), which was also a basis of human beings’ morality. Also, the ideas of Dao, taken from Taoism, and Greek Logos, cannot be considered as equal, because there is no God in Taoism, and Logos in Western philosophy is a word of God. For Chinese people, the Bible’s stories were very violent, primitive and immoral. Also, translating theological terms into Chinese was difficult, because the Chinese language is monosyllabic, and each character contains its own meaning. In this paper I listed several examples of it. Some Chinese people used to understand Christianity through their understanding of Confucian philosophy. Missionaries’ efforts have deeply influenced the relations between China and Eastern Europe and also had a significant meaning for the development of Chinese studies.
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