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CSCA: Source Documents on the Study of Christianity in Asia

The documents posted on this website are for personal and academic use in Trinity Theological College. You may not publish the material without our written permission.

Compiled by Michael Poon, Updated 05 May, 2008

19th Century | 20th Century | CHSKH Source Docs

Record of documents posted since Feb 2007

 

Most documents are in pdf format;  documents marked are in djvu format for faster access

19th Century  (Sources: Documents marked 'Google' are from Google Books; 'NLB' from the National Library Board, Singapore;  "IA" from Internet Archive;  "MDGC" are from the University of Michigan Digital Library General Collection )

Source documents in Anglican Missions

The Indo-Chinese Gleaner, Volume 3 -14 (1818-1820)

References to South East Asia in the Chinese Repository (Full-text)

References to South East Asia in the Chinese Recorder (Full-text)

Karl Gutzlaff's Works

Map of "the Eastern Islands or Malay Archipelago" (from The Claims of Japan and Malaysia upon Christendom, exhibited in notes of voyages made in 1837 : from Canton, in the ship Morrison and brig Himmaleh, under the direction of the owners. Volume 2. New York : E. French, 1839.)

Extracts from Charles Burton Buckley, An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore from the Foundation of the Settlement under the Honourable the East India Company on February 6th, 1819 to the Transfer to the Colonial office as Part of the Colonial Possessions of the Crown on April 1st, 1867. 2 Volumes. Singapore: Fraser and Neave Ltd., 1902. : Raffles' Vision for Singapore | Beginnings of the Raffles Institute | Armenian Church | Saint Andrew's Church | Anglican Missions | Presbyterian Missions | Keasberry | Sophia Cooke | Attack on Chinese Roman Catholics

1814 Substance of a Minute recorded by Honourable Thomas Stamford Raffles on the 11th February 1814 on the Introduction of an Improved System of Internal Management and the Establishment of a Land Rental on the Island of Java. NLB
1816 Raffles, Memorial to East India Company 27 January 1816 NLB
1816 John Owen. The History of the Origin and the First Ten Years of the British and Foreign Bible Society. London: Tilling and Hughes, 1816. Google
1819 Minute by Sir T. S. Raffles on the Establishment of a Malay College at Singapore 1819 (National Library Board, Singapore)  
1820 William Milne. A retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant mission to China. Malacca: Anglo-Chinese Press, 1820. Google
1822 Robert Morrison, A Dictionary of the Chinese Language in Three Parts. Part III. Macao: P. P. Thoms, 1822. Google
1823 Robert Morrison's Sermon: A Spirit of Love Essential to Human Duty, Singapore 1823. From A Parting Memorial consisting of Miscellaneous Discourses, written and preached in China; at Singapore; on Board Ship at Sea, in the Indian Ocean; at the Cape of Good Hope; and in England with Remarks on Mission. London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1826. 38-48.  
1826 Robert Morrison. A Parting Memorial, consisting of miscellaneous discourse written and preached in China; at Singapore; on Board ship at sea; in the Indian Ocean; at the Cape of Good Hope; and in England with Remarks on Mission. London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1826. Google
1826 George Finlayson. The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the capital of Cochin China in the years 1821-2 : from the journal of the late George Finlayson, Esq. with a memoir of the author by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. London : J. Murray, 1826. Google
1829 James D. Knowles. Memoir of Mrs. Ann H. Judson, late missionary to Burmah, including a History of the American Baptist Mission in the Burman Empire. Second Edition. Boston: Lincoln and Edwards, 1829. Google
1830 Remarks on Free Trade to China. London: C J G and F Rivington, St Paul’s Church-yard, and Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall, 1830. Google
1831 Neumann, Karl Friedrich, 1793?-1870, comp. Translations from the Chinese and Armenian / with notes and illustrations, by Charles Fried. Neumann. London : Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund and sold by J. Murray, 1831. Google
1831 Jacob Tomlin. Journal of a nine months' residence in Siam. London, Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, 1831. Google
1833 Admonition, addressed to a mixed congregation from various nations, and belonging to different churches - being a sermon preached on board the American ship Morrison; at Whampoa, in China, December 2, 1833. by Robert Morrison D. D. Albion Press, 1833.  
1833 Claudius Henry Thomsen. A vocabulary of the English, Bugis, and Malay languages, containing about 2000 words. Singapore: the Mission Press, 1833. Google
1823-1835 Annual Report of the Anglo-Chinese College for the Year 1823, 1824-1825, 1826-27(with Appendix on Yin and Yang), 1834, 1835  
1834 Samuel Dyer, A Selection of the Three Thousand Characters being the Most Important of the Chinese Language for the Purpose of Facilitating the Cutting of Punches. Malacca: Anglo-Chinese College, 1834.  
1836 William Milne, Dialogues between Chang and Yuen. Singapore, 1836.  
1836 G. J Gordon. Address to the people of Great Britain: explanatory of our commercial relations with the empire of China, and of the course of policy by which it may be rendered an almost unbounded field for British commerce / by a visitor to China. London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1836. Google
1837 George Windsor Earl. Eastern Seas or Voyages and Adventures in the Indian Archipelago in 1832-33-34, comprising a Tour of the Island of java -- visits to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Siam, &c; also an Account of the Present State of Singapore with Observations of the Commercial Resources of the Archipelago. London: Allen, 1837. Google
1838 Samuel Dyer, A Vocabulary of the Hok-keen Dialect as Spoken in the County of Tsheang-Tshew. Malacca: Anglo-Chinese College Press, 1838. (Part 1, Part 2).  
1839 Memoirs of the Life and Labours of Robert Morrison ... compiled by his widow; with critical notices of his Chinese works, by Samuel Kidd, and an appendix containing original documents... 2 volumes. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, and Longmans, 1839. (Volume I | II). Google
1839 The Claims of Japan and Malaysia upon Christendom, exhibited in notes of voyages made in 1837: from Canton, in the ship Morrison and brig Himmaleh, under the direction of the owners. New York: E. French, 1839. Google
1840 Robert Philip. The life and opinions of Rev. William Milne, DD, Missionary to China. London: John Snow, 1840. Google
1842 A Judson. Grammatical Notices of the Burmese Language. Maulmain: American Baptist Mission Press, 1842. Google
1842 Robert Alder, Wesleyan Missions: Their Progress Stated and their Claims Enforced (London: Wesleyan Missionary Society, 1842)  
1843 John Stronach,  A Sermon occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Samuel Dyer, Missionary to the Chinese, preached in the New Mission Chapel Singapore, November 9, 1843, with a Sketch of Mr. Dyer's Life and Character by his Widow.  Singapore: Mission Press, 1843.  
1846 Henry Keppel, The Expedition to Borneo of HMS Dido for the Suppression of Piracy with Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarawak. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. Google
1847 George Smith. A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to each of the consular cities of China, and to the islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in behalf of the Church missionary society, in the years, 1844, 1845, 1846. New York: Harper & Row, 1847. Google
1847 The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle. 1847. Vol. XXV: New Series. London: Ward and Co., 1847. Google
1852 M C Lavollée. Voyage en Chine: Ténérife, Rio Janeiro, Le cap, Ile Bourbon,  Malacca, Singapore, Manille, Macao, Canton, Ports Chinois, Cochinchine, Java. Paris: Rouvier, 1852. Google
1853

John C. Templer, ed. The Private Letters of R James Brooke, KCB, Rajah of Sarawak, narrating the events of his life, from 1838 to the present time. Volume III. London: Bentley, 1853.

Google
1855 Walter M. Gibson, The prison of Weltevreden: and a glance at the East Indian Archipelago (New York: J. C. Riker, 1855) MDGC
1857 Sixth Annual Report by the Committee of Management of Tan Tocksing's Hospital, 24th July 1857.  
1857 George Francis Train. An American Merchant in Europe, Asia and Australia: A Series of letters from Java, Singapore, China, Bengal, Egypt, the Holy Land, the Crimea and its Battle Grounds, England, Melbourne, Sydney, etc. etc.  New York: G. P. Putnam & co., 1857. Google
1857 William C Milne, Life in China. London: Routledge and Co., 1857 Google
1859 John Clark Marshman. The Life and Times of Carey, Marshman, and Ward, embracing the History of the Serampore Mission. London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1859. Google
1859 The Hongkong Directory with List of Foreign Residents in China. Hongkong: Armenian Press, 1859. Google
1859-1863 Ladies' Bible and Tract Society Annual Report for Year 1859, 1860, 1861, 1863. (See Microfilm Guide to China Pamphlets)  
1861 The Christian in Singapore. A Religious Magazine published Quarterly by the Singapore Ladies' Bible & Tract Society. Volume 1, April 1861.  
1862 Report of the Girl's Free School at Malacca for the Year 1861-62  
1862 Second Annual Report of the Income and Expenditure of the Protestant Mission School in Pinang, John Chapman, 1862.  
1863 The Report of the Chinese Mission in connexion with the Presbyterian Church of Singapore, by Si-Boo the Catechist, October 1863.  
1882 Frank Athelstane Swettenham, Map to illustrate the Siamese question. An Account of the Origin and Progress of Siamese Influence in the Malay Peninsula 1785 to 1882 (Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1893) MDGC
1891 W H Treacher, British Borneo: Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan and North Borneo. Singapore: Government Printing Department, 1891. IA
1891 William Girdlestone Shellabear, The Singapore triglot vocabulary. The Chinese renderings B F West (Singapore: American Mission Press, 1891 MDGC
1893 W. Basil Worsfold, A Visit to Java with an Account of the Founding of Singapore (1893) NLB
1898 John Dill Ross, The Capital of a Little Empire. A Descriptive Study of a British Crown Colony in the Far East (1898) NLB
1899 J F A McNair, Prisoners their own Warders. A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Strait Settlements established 1825, discontinued 1873, together with a cursory history of the convict establishments at Bencoolen, Penang and Malacca from the Year 1797. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1899. IA
1900 Bishop J.M. Thoburn and Bishop F.W. Warne, Light in the East : India, Malaysia, the Philippines (Chicago: Missionary Campaign Library, c1900) MDGC

20th Century

References to South East Asia in the Chinese Recorder (Full-text)

Source Documents in the Christian and Missionary Alliance's work in Vietnam

Kampar Chinese Methodist Church Source Documents, donated by Rev. Sam Men Biew (April 2007)

The "Old Singapore": A Photo Review

Chinese Newspaper Lat Pau (1887-1932); Sin Kok Min Jit Pao (1919-1933)

Emergence of Theological Education in the 1950s: (see also documents in Yale Divinity School Library, Pamphlet Collection, HR1340:  see extracts)

1901 Wilkinson, Richard James, A Malay-English dictionary, (Singapore [etc.]: Kelly & Walsh limited, 1901-03) MDGC
1902 William Girdlestone Shellabear,  A Malay-English vocabulary containing 6500 Malay words or phrases with their English equivalents, together with an appendix of household, nautical and medical terms, etc., etc. (Singapore: American Mission Press, 1902) MDGC
1904 The Anglo-Chinese School Magazine: Volume 5, Number 13 (Singapore: Mission Press, 1904). (A Special Illustrated Number with the Histories of the Anglo-Chinese Schools at Singapore. Penang, and Ipoh).  
1907 Bethune Cook, Sunny Singapore (1907) NLB
1907 China Centenary Missionary Conference Records: Report of the Great Conference held in Shanghai, April 5th to May 8th, 1907.  
1910 World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 volumes MDGC
1916 W. G. Shellabear, An English-Malay dictionary, Singapore: The Methodist Publishing House, 1916 MDGC
1923 Song Ong Siang, One Hundred Years’ History of the Chinese in Singapore (1923) NLB
1929 C R Purser, Burma. SPG Handbook (Westminster: SPG, 1929)  
1935 Erye Chatterton, India through a Bishop's Diary or Memoirs of an Indian Diocese by its first Bishop (London: SPCK, 1935)  
1935 Program of the Nanking Theological Seminary. Statement adopted by the Board of Managers, 1935.  
1935 Nathalie Toms Means, Malaysia Mosaic: A Story of fifty years of Methodism (Singapore; Methodist Book Room, 1935)  
1946 F Lorenz Beven, A History of the Diocese of Columbo. A Centenary Volume (Ceylon: Times of Ceylon, 1946)  
1949 Official Findings of the Eastern Asia Christian Conference, Bangkok, December 3-11, 1949  
1949 Extract from Dr Rajah B. Manikam’s Introduction: The Task of the Bangkok Conference, 1949.  
1952 Anderson-Smith Report on Theological Education in Southeast Asia (1952), Summary and Conclusion  
1954 Thakin Nu, Burma under the Japanese. Pictures and Portraits. London: MacMillan, 1954.  
1957? Shiwu Liju. (History of Sibu, Malaysia). See Introductory Note by Michael Poon  
1960 Raymond Morris, Some Impressions of the Libraries in Protestant Theological Educational Institutions in South East Asia and Their Implications for the Christian Church [address given to the American Theological Library Association at Toronto, Canada, by Morris, the Librarian of Yale University Divinity School], SEAJT 1.3 (1960): 8-16.  
1964 Terence Joseph, "Letters from Sarawak", in The Long-house Church in Sarawak: A Study of the Rural, Iban, Methodist Church in the New Federation of Malaysia, Appendix A (Master of sacred Theology Thesis,  Southern Methodist University: Perkins School of Theology, 1964).  
1966 D D Chelliah, 'Focus on Christianity' in Religions in Singapore : speeches delivered during a seminar held at the Conference Hall, Singapore, on 10th Aug. 1966 (Singapore : Inter-Religious Organization , [1966?])  
1967 O M da Silva, Vikrama Bahu of Kandy (Columbo: M D Gunasena, 1967)  
1967 M L Manich, History of Laos (Including the history of Lannathal, Chiengmai) (Bangkok: Chalermnit, 1967)  
1970 Tennakoon Vimalananda, The State and religion in Ceylon since 1815 (Columbo: M D Gunaena, 1970)  
1972 F C Dossan, History of the Malacca Christian Cemetery (Malacca, Royal Press, 1972[?])  
1975 Proposed All Saints Memorial Chapel and Ancillary Building, Singapore (1975?)  
1977 The 80th Anniversary Souvenir Magazine of the Foochow Methodist Church, Singapore  
1987 Foochow Methodist Church 90th Anniversary Souvenir Magazine, Singapore  
1988 Chinese Annual Conference Women's Society of Christian Service 40th Anniversary Album  Methodist Church in Singapore新加坡基督教卫理公会华人年议会妇女服务会40周年纪念刊 (1948-1988)  
1995 Martin Quere, Christianity in Sri Lanka under the Portuguese padroado 1597-1658 (Columbo: Columbo Catholic Press, 1995)  
1996 True Grace Presbyterian Church Singapore 10th Anniversary Magazine (1986-1996) 新加坡真恩教会十周年特刊  
1997 The 100th Anniversary Foochow Methodist Church Centennial Celebrations  
2000 Chen-li Presbyterian Church 5th Anniversary Magazine, Johor Bahru, Malaysia  马来西亚基督教长老会新山真理长老会设教五周年特刊  
2002 Raimy Che-Ross, "A Penang Kaddish: the Jewish Cemetery in Georgetown. A Case Study of the Jewish Diaspora in Penang (1830s-1970s)", The Penang Study - International Conference 2002, 18-21 April 2002, Penang, Malaysia Penang  Heritage Trust
2005 Chen-li Presbyterian Church 10th Anniversary Magazine, Johor Bahru, Malaysia  马来西亚基督教长老会新山真理长老会设教十周年庆典  

Acknowledgement: Michael Poon is grateful to the Asia Research Institute (National University of Singapore) and Yale Divinity School Library for the use of their facilities in compili