Talk:Liang Fa

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--Menchi 02:07 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Name[edit]

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)[reply]

Done —

Llywelyn II

03:02, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What a mess[edit]

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.

Davies, Evan (1846), The Memoir of Samuel Dyer: Sixteen Years Missionary to the Chinese, London: John Snow, p. 142.

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 ( Done) and this

{{chinese |t={{linktext|周|學}} |s= |p= |altname= Chau Lai-Tong |t2={{linktext|周|勵|堂}} |s2= |p2= }} The Methodist Church in England sent missionary [[George Piercy]] to China.<ref>{{citation |url=https://archive.org/stream/handbookofmethod00john/handbookofmethod00john_djvu.txt |title=? }}.</ref> 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)[reply]

Sources for article expansion[edit]

Much more at McNeur, including this affecting passage regarding his punishment and details re: his wife. — $Llywelyn II$ 00:52, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Song, Andrew Baiyu; et al. (2015), Training Laborers for His Harvest: A Historical Study of William Milne's Mentorship of Liang Fa, Eugene: Wipf & Stock.

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

Hong Xiuquan[edit]

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)[reply]

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