Snapshot of China and Chinese Missions from 1907

This is an extremely detailed province-by-province survey of Chinese life and the progress of Christian missions there up to 1907. It is written by multiple authors who each had personal experience of the region they wrote about.

This title is in the public domain. My thanks to Redcliffe College for making a copy available for digitisation.

Marshall Broomhall [1866-1937], The Chinese Empire. A General and Missionary Survey. London: Morgan & Scott, [1907]. Hbk. pp.472. [Click to visit the download page]

Contents

• Preface by The Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Satow, G.C.M.G
• Editor’s Preface
• Introduction by Marshall Broomhall. Geography; Early Nestorian Missions; First Roman Catholic Effort; Second Roman Catholic Effort. Protestant Missions: Period of Preparation, 1807-1842; Period of the Ports, 1842-1860; Period of Penetration, 1860-1877; Period of Progress, Persecution, and Prosperity, 1878-1907.
• The Province of Kwagtung by The Rev. J. Campbell Gibson, M.A., D.D. English Presbyterian Mission. Arrived In China 1874.
• The Province of Fukien by The Rev. Llewellyn Lloyd, Church Missionary Society. Arrived In China 1876.
• The Island of Formosa by The Rev. Thomas Barclay, M.A., English Presbyterian. Mission. Arrived In China 1874.
• The Province of Chekiang by the Ven. Archdeacon A. E. Moule, B.D., Church Missionary Society. Arrived In China 1861.
• The Province of Kiangsu by Rev. John Darroch, Translator For Shansi Imperial University. Arrived In China 1887.
• The Province of Shantung by Mr. C. F. Hogg. Arrived In China 1884.
• The Province of Chihli by The Rev. Thomas Bryson, London Missionary Society. Arrived In China 1866.
• The Province of Hupeh by The Rev. Arnold Foster, B.A., London Missionary Society. Arrived In China 1871.
• The Province of Kiangsi By Mr. Archibald Orr-Ewing, China Inland Mission. Arrived In China 1886.
• The Province of Anhwei by The Rev. J. J. Coulthard, China Inland Mission. Arrived In China 1879.
• The Province of Honan by G. Whitfield Guinness, B.A., M.B., China Inland Mission. Arrived In China 1897.
• The Province of Hunan By Mr. A. H. Harris, Late Acting Commissioner of Customs, Changsha. Arrived In China 1883.
• The Province of Kansu by Marshall Broomhall, In China 1890-1899.
• The Province of Shensi by Marshall Broomhall, In China 1890-1899.
• The Province of Shansi by Mr. Albert Lutley, China Inland Mission, Arrived In China 1887,
• The Province of Szechwan by Mr. Jushu-A Vale, China Inland Mission. Arrived In China. 1887.
• The Province of Yunnan by The Rev. John M’carthy, China Inland Mission. Arrived In China 1867.
• The Province of Kweichow by The Rev. Samuel Clarke, China Inland Mission. Arrived In China 1878.
• The Province of Kwangsi by The Rev. Louis Byrde, B.A., Church Missionary Society. Arrived In China 1898.
• The Province of Sinkiang by Mr. George Hunter, China Inland Mission. Arrived In China 1889.
• Manchuria by The Rev. J. W. Inglis, M.A., United Free Church of Scotland. Arrived In Manchuria in 1890.
• Tibet by Mr. Cecil Polhill, China Inland Mission. Arrived In China 1885.
• Mongolia by Marshall Broomhall. And Supplementary Section on Work For the Mongols At Kalgan, By Rev. J. H. Roberts, American Board of C.F.M. Arrived In China 1877.
• The Bible in the Chinese Empire by Marshall Broomhall; Based on Material Supplied by the British and Foreign Bible Society.
• Appendices
  I. Philology
  II. The Jews in China
  Ill. Introduction of Christianity Into China
  IV. Biographical Outlines
• Indices
  I. Chronological
  II. General
  III. Missionary Societies
• IV. Biographical or Personal
  V. Topographical