Invaluable chronicle of information shared among Western missionaries in China from 1867 to 1941
The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal is the longest-lived English-language publication dating from the turbulent period of 19th-century China. It was published continually from 1868 until Pacific War hostilities ultimately led to cessation of its publication in 1941. It was launched as a platform for the exchange of information between missionaries and discussion of missionary tasks, as well as to foster understanding of Chinese culture and promotion of missionary work. The detail and depth of many articles that appeared in its pages over the years, supplemented by hand-sketched drawings and photographs, and the precise statistical figures it records chronicle more than seven decades of observations and insights into China by Western-born missionaries, and provide researchers with an invaluable first-hand view of near-modern Chinese history and life.
This database comprises the result of collaboration between the Christianity and China Research Center and the National Taiwan University Press to collect and re-assemble a complete set of The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal issues from 1868 to 1941, as well as the single year publication of its predecessor, The Missionary Recorder: A Repository of Intelligence from Eastern Missions and a Medium of General Information from 1867. To this complete set of content has been added The Chinese Recorder Index: A Guide to Christian Missions in Asia, 1867-1941 in two volumes to allow researchers to topically search the more than 50,000 pages of historical information.
This republication of The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal in digital form is unprecedented worldwide for featuring 1) all 72 years of issue, 2) the cleanest and clearest scanned images of the original printed text, and 3) the CRI Search Engine, which allows researchers to conduct searches of the full text and index via the Internet using key words, gaining immediate access to a scanned image of the page containing the searched item. The faceted classification automatic statistical and key-word truncation features of the CRI search engine allow enhanced precision and convenience in finding meaningful search results and locating pertinent text, making this database indispensible compared to other similarly historical information collections.
Joint Publishers: The Christianity and China Research Center and National Taiwan University Press
Editors: Ling-Guang Wang, Shih-Chieh Cha, and Jieh Hsiang
Editor in Chief: Shih-Chieh Cha
Supervising Director: Jieh Hsiang
Language: English
Distributor: Airiti Inc.