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temple, which he saw as a relic of a superstitious and backward era, into a secular facility to promote the consumption of goods produced in
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Christian, not only in his personal affairs but especially in public life. His interest in the Taipings was in part stimulated by their unusual adoption of Christian beliefs, but he also argued strenuously for the gradual Christianization of China. He wrote essays against the
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from 1964 to 1965, the institution that now houses the Jen Yu-Wen Papers. He died in Hong Kong in 1978. His wife, Mabel Yuk-Sein Young, with whom he had two sons and two daughters, died in 1958.
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Ho, Eliza. "From xin guohua (new national painting) to the founder of the
Lingnan School: transformation of the representations of Gao Jianfu and his art by a regional discourse”
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Sino-Christian theology: a theological qua cultural movement in contemporary China
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Uhalley, Stephen, "The Significance of Jen Yu-wen's Magnum Opus on the Taipings".
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in 1931. He inherited a proposal from his predecessor to convert the Guangzhou
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379:Record of my military days in the northwest
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