НАЧАЛО ИЗУЧЕНИЯ ИСТОРИИ РУССКОЙ ЦЕРКВИ В КИТАЕ (к 80-летию публикации книги Клиффорда Х. Плоппера «История восточных православных церквей»)

Abstract

The History of the Eastern Orthodox Churches" by American missionary Clifford H. Plopper can be considered the first book to provide some insight into the Russian Orthodox Church and to serve as the beginning of the study of Orthodoxy in China. Despite some misrepresentations of Russian history and Russian church history due to the author's ignorance, this book, published in Chinese, has played its undeniable role. And now, 80 years after the first attempt to tell the story of the Russian Orthodox Church, modern Chinese scholars still have much work to do to fill the gaps in the study of the History of the Russian Church.