Document Collections and Bibliographies

Document Collections

Primary Sources List: Missionary Perspectives on China

Archives Unbound: Global Missions and Theology documents 19th-century American missionary activities among Native Americans and African Americans, both slaves and freed men, and in Africa, Fiji and the Sandwich Islands, India, China, Southeast Asia, Japan and Hawaii. Includes personal narratives, organizational records and biographies of leaders, missionaries and churches.

Anna V. Blough Missionary Letters and Diaries from China (Elizabethtown College)

Nineteenth Century Collection Online Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange includes:

  • Missionary Files: Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence, 1846-1912 (China, Japan, Korea)
  • Missionary Files: Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence, 1912-1949 (China, Japan, Korea)

Bibliographies

American China Missions: An Introductory Bibliography

Reference Sources

Handbook of Christianity in China, ed. by Nicolas Standaert. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2001-2010. 2 v.
HOLLIS record

Encyclopedia of mission and missionaries, ed. by Jonathan J. Bonk. NY: Routledge, 2007, 473 p.
Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | BV2040 .E48 2007
Online Access

The missionary gazetteer: comprising a view of the inhabitants, and a geographical description of the countries and places, where Protestant missionaries have labored; alphabetically arranged, and so constructed as to give a particular and general history of missions throughout the world: with an appendix containing an alphabetical list of missionaries, their stations, the time of entering, removal, or decease, by Walter Chapin. Woodstock, VT: Printed by D. Watson, 1825. 420 p.
Andover-Harv. Theol | Harvard Depository Special Collection | 815 C467mi 1825 Houghton | C 10010.9*
--In Google Books
--Other editions available; consult HOLLIS

Biography

The missionary periodical The Chinese Recorder is a major source for biographical information on Christian missionaries in China. Vol. 1 is an index by name. Vol. 2 includes indexes of persons by affiliation and by location, together with lists of women, medical doctors, and women medical doctors. Vol. 2 also includes indexes of non-biographical material by subject and by missions and other organizations. There is a list of missions and other organizations by location.
--The Chinese Recorder, 1867-1941 is available as searchable full text in China: Trade, Politics and Culture.
--The Chinese biographical dictionary Jin dai lai Hua wai guo ren ming ci dian serves to connect names of missionaries in Chinese characters to the Western form of the name, whence it can be looked up in The Chinese Recorder index.

China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) quantifies and visualizes the place of Christianity in modern China (1550-1950}

Searchable Index of Necrologies for Missionaries and Congregational Clergy, (Congregational Library, Boston)

The American Context of China's Christian Colleges

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity

Religious Periodical Literature

China Medical Missionary Journal (1887-1907)
Internet Archive Full Text

ATLA Religion Database indexes journal articles, essays, and book reviews in the field of religion. Citations cover all religions and all theological points of view

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index covers about 200 Roman Catholic periodicals as well as papal documents, church promulgations, book reviews, and books about Catholicism, authored by Catholics or produced by Catholic publishers.

Christian Periodical Index provides access to English language articles and reviews from an evangelical Christian perspective. The index is representative of the major doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity.

Religious and Theological Abstracts provides summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.

Missionary Periodicals Database aims to record all periodicals on foreign missions published in Britain, between the eighteenth century and the 1960s, by missionary societies and commercial publishers

Nineteenth Century Collection Online Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange includes Missionary and Socio-Economic Journals