美国国会图书馆亚洲部藏十九世纪传教士中文文献编目.pdf

Journal of East Asian Libraries, No. 145, June 2008 INVENTORY OF THE 19TH CENTURY MISSIONARY WORKS IN CHINESE AT THE ASIAN DIVISION, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, U.S.A. Compiled by Mi Chu, Man Shun Yeung and Ariele Bernard* I Introduction The Inventory of the 19th Century Missionary Works in Chinese at the Asian Division, The Library of Congress, U.S. (hereafter “Inventory”) is a continuation and expansion of the Annotated Catalogue of the Book Exhibition, A Bridge between Cultures: Commemorating the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Robert Morrison’s Arrival in China—the first research output of the project aimed to catalogue and digitize the Asian Division’s early missionary works in Chinese that included Romanized colloquial dialects and make them available to the international community.1 The project started in December 2006 and lasted for one year, with a focus on collecting and reviewing all relevant items that do not belong to the Division’s major Chinese collections, namely, the “Caleb Cushing Collection,” “William Gamble Collection,” “William Rockhill Collection” and “Arthur Probsthain Collection.” When the project finished, up to 202 items in 272 volumes (with several duplications) were reviewed.2 Among them, 106 items do not have a call number or an accession number. The 202 missionary works were published both within and outside of China, in major cities or regions including Canton (Guangzhou), Fu Chow/Foochow (Fuzhou), Hong Kong (Xianggang), Macao (Aomen), Ningpo (Ningbo), Peking (Beijing), Shanghai, Swatow (Shantou), Yantai, Bangkok, Malacca, Singapore, Boston, New York and London. They were authored, compiled or translated by the following famous Christian missionaries: Robert Morrison (1782-1834), William Milne (1785-1822), W