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Metastasis is a pathogenic agent's spreading from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body; [1] the term is typically used when referring to metastasis by a cancerous tumor. [2] The newly pathological sites, then, are metastases (mets).
Jean Basset (c. 1662 – 1707) was a French Catholic missionary and Bible translator in Qing-era China. Basset–Su Chinese New Testament. Basset was born around 1662 in Lyon. He entered the seminary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1684 and in 1685 was sent as a missionary to Siam. In 1689 he arrived at Guangzhou (Canton) in China.
The task of translation motivated missionaries to study Chinese closely, contributing to the development of Sinology. The Bible, especially the Old Testament, also offered Chinese revolutionaries such as the leaders of the nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion an apocalyptic vision of social justice on which to base their claims.
Pages in category "Bible translations into Chinese" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Chinese Standard Bible (CSB 中文标准译本 Zhongwen biaozhun yiben), New Testament, Global Bible Initiative and Holman Bible Publishers 2011 Chinese NET Bible ( NET圣经 中译本 ), 2011–2012 Contemporary Chinese Version (CCV), The New Testament, 《圣经．新汉语译本》 Chinese Bible International ( 汉语圣经协会 ) 2010
Robert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834), was an Anglo-Scottish [2] [3] Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature".
The Bible has been translated into many of the languages of China besides Chinese. These include major minority languages with their own literary history, including Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian and Uyghur. The other languages of China are mainly tribal languages, mainly spoken in Yunnan in Southwest China. [1]
The characters used for Bible names, and consequently for many Bible books, differ from those in Protestant Chinese Bibles such as the standard Chinese Union Version. For example, "John" is 若望 (Ruòwàng) rather than the 約翰 (约翰; Yuēhàn) found in Protestant Bibles and secular sources.