The Chinese Repository Explained

Editor:	Elijah Coleman Bridgman S. Wells Williams
Based:	Canton
Founded:	1832
Finaldate:	1851

The Chinese Repository was a periodical published in Canton between May 1832 and 1851 to inform Protestant missionaries working in Asia about the history and culture of China, of current events, and documents. The world's first major journal of Sinology,^[1] it was the brainchild of Elijah Coleman Bridgman, the first American Protestant missionary appointed to China. Bridgman served as its editor until he left for Shanghai in 1847, but continued to contribute articles. James Granger Bridgman succeeded him as editor, until September 1848, when Samuel Wells Williams took charge.^[2]

Further reading

• Barnett. Suzanne W.. Silent Evangelism: Presbyterians and the Mission Press in China, 1807-1860. Journal of Presbyterian History. 49. 4. 287–302. 1971. 23327276.
• Book: Johnson, Kendall. The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2017. 9781421422510.
• Malcolm . Elizabeth L. . The Chinese Repository and Western Literature on China 1800 to 1850 . Modern Asian Studies . 7 . 2 . 165–178 . 1973 . 10.1017/S0026749X00004534 . 145792763 .

External links

• See online editions that can be downloaded at no cost
• The Chinese Repository, Bibliotheca Sinica, University of Vienna. Includes listing of the volumes available online.

Notes and References

1. Lazich. Michael C.. 20079374. American Missionaries and the Opium Trade in Nineteenth-Century China. Journal of World History. 17. 2. 197–223. June 2006. 10.1353/jwh.2006.0040. 144957722.
2. http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/epub/guides/cr.html Michael Poon, "CSCA: A Note on The Chinese Repository, Twenty volumes, Canton, 1832-1851"