Talk:Liang Fa

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Source consulted during the article writing: --Menchi 02:07 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)
 * Biography by a Hong Kong City University student (in Traditional Chinese)
 * Modern newspaper article (in Simplified Chinese)
 * The Firsts (in Simplified Chinese)

Name
Just a note. It seems that in most Western sources the man is known as Liang Afa. Since this is an English language article it might be good to feature this name a bit more prominently and include it in search results (since Afa is what westerners will be looking for.) Zotlan 20:20, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * ✅ — Llywelyn II   03:02, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

What a mess
I understand the "some Chinaman" attitude of the Brits during this period but you can't cite Davies for Liang's work when Davies doesn't mention any Chinese workers at all. is only a source for Dyer's work in Malaysia, which is irrelevant to this article. You need some source saying that Liang was involved with it.

There are entire paragraphs of this article that aren't about Liang at all. The passage on Hobson belongs in his article (✅) and this
 * The Methodist Church in England sent missionary George Piercy to China. In 1851, Piercy went to Guangzhou, where he worked in a trading company. In 1853, he started a church in Guangzhou. In 1877, Chau was ordained by the Methodist Church, where he pastored for 39 years (incumbent 1877-1916).

belongs with an article on Hok Chau, not here. — Llywelyn II   03:02, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Sources for article expansion
Much more at McNeur, including this affecting passage regarding his punishment and details re: his wife. — Llywelyn II   00:52, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

also has missing details, such as the bit about his home life here. — Llywelyn II   00:51, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Hong Xiuquan
This article strongly implies that Liang Fa distributed his works to Hong Xiuquan. Jen Yu-wen in The Taiping Revolutionary Movement 14 (1973) claims this is not possible (and IIRC other books have stated the same). The link to the PDF source backing up this claim appears to be broken. Is there any recent, credible scholarship in support of this claim? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbrote (talk • contribs) 06:52, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

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