Talk:Bible translations into Chinese

Catholic/Non-Protestant-specific Bibles
Here is a website with some information on pre-Protestant bible work in china: http://www.inst.at/trans/16Nr/09_4/dong-sheng16.htm --ElCuervitoAzul (talk) 21:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Is there a reason why this page (Chinese Bible Translations) contains no information on Catholic/Non-Protestant-specific Chinese Bibles? Thank you --131.238.108.230 21:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Do you have any info that could be added? The history does detail some early attempts by the Jesuits in translation. But since publishing the Scriptures in Chinese was not a high priority, the main bulk of the history falls into the Protestant realm. The main article Bible translations seems to indicate that there were some translations eventually published in the middle of the twentieth century by the Roman church.Brian0324 17:45, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Jean Basset (1662-1707) and Joachim Enjobert de Martiliat (1706-1755), French missionaries of the Société des Missions Ėtrangères de Paris, translated but did not publish parts of the New Testament. Robert Morrison drew upon their manuscripts in their translation.Entenman 20:16, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Koryuji Buddhist Temple(広隆寺) in Kyoto has a copy of the Gospel of Matthew in Chinese that dates to the ninth century. I've seen references to other Chinese manuscripts of the Bible, or portions thereof, from the First millennium, in Shinto Shrines in Japan.jonathon (talk) 14:10, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Can you find references (books, authoritative websites, etc.) for these? Then they can be added as sourced information to the article. Feline Hymnic (talk) 19:18, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Page Move
"Translations" is not a proper noun, so I believe it should be moved according to Wikipedia naming conventions. If no one objects, I will move it soon.--Danaman5 17:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Where will you move it to? I do not understand why "Translations" is not a proper noun. Awb49 12:01, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

NET Chinese
It's a little unclear from their website, are the NET Bible folks translating a Chinese Version?--Alfredie (talk) 06:03, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Titles
This article needs to conform to one style regarding titles. We have Dr., Rev., Rev. Dr., etc... What are the criteria used to apply titles?--Scotchorama (talk) 09:00, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Hakka
I have read a New Testament translation into Hakka published by the Bible Society in Taiwan in the 1990s. – Kaihsu (talk) 16:42, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Question
This article offers a lot of informations but I think that they can be better presented. I plann to work on this article in next few days so if anybody interested for cooperation send a message on my user page. --Vojvodaeist 13:10, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Translations by Chinese native speakers?
The article really needs information on translation efforts by native speakers of Chinese. Currently only efforts by Westerners are described (except for the one Russian priest mentioned in passing). When and where did native Chinese Christian translation efforts start? Which versions come from native speakers? etc. -- 77.187.136.231 (talk) 13:02, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Mandarin reference bible and Robert Morrison's Xin Yi Zhao Shu
http://books.google.com/books?id=oYhtAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=EHBSAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=oo_rkKKKKvIC&pg=PA19&dq=xin+yi+zhao+shu&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PEbSUMnLF6GU0QHWpYHoCw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=xin%20yi%20zhao%20shu&f=false

Rajmaan (talk) 23:08, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Vetus et Novum Testamentum: ¬The Pentateuch : in Chinese, Volume 1
http://books.google.com/books?id=KQo7AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Rajmaan (talk) 04:48, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Further revisions
There are many good features to this article already, especially its rich cast of characters, breadth, and images, but I suggest further revisions to eventually raise it to Good Article status.

I took the liberty of moving the consolidating the list of translations to the article List of Chinese Bible translations.

Further revisions include consolidating the one paragraph sections which deal with only a single translation; expanding covering of Catholic translations; expanding coverage of Chinese scholars who in earlier times were referred to anonymously as "helpers," or "assistants"; supplying notes and references; and tightening up. Please help or give advice! ch (talk) 04:54, 4 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I have found the source from which much of the early page was copied: James Thomas, and Alexander Wylie, "The Bible in China: A Record of Various Translations of the Holy Scriptures," in Arnold Foster, Christian Progress in China: Gleanings from the Writings and Speeches of Many Workers (London: Religious Tract Society, 1889), 29-46. Google Books.


 * I will rewrite and give proper sourcing as I continue to revise. ch (talk) 01:24, 6 January 2014 (UTC)