INFORMATION REGARDING
RELATED ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND EVENTS
Descriptions
of the China Christian Colleges and Universities
Archives related to
these institutions at the Yale Divinity Library are described at and are
available on microfilm via Inter-library loan.
To see online photos of the campuses, students, faculty, etc., see the China
Christian Colleges and Universities Image Database
- American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions:
The ABCFM began informally with the 1806 “Haystack Prayer Meeting”
of “the Brethren,” a group of students at Williams College, Williamstown,
Massachusetts. After graduating from Williams, several of the students enrolled
at Andover Theological Seminary. In 1810 Samuel Mills, one of the students,
spoke with the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts
about missionary work India and with Native Americans in the western United
States. Commissioners were appointed to look into the matter, a method of
operation common at that time. The Board was officially chartered June 20,
1812 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions. The first ABCFM missionaries sailed for Calcutta, India
in February, 1812.
Records of the ABCFM are available at:
Microfilm copies of the ABCFM archives held by Harvard are available at:
- Boxer
Rebellion:
The Boxer Rebellion was
a religious, anti-foreign movement in China that began in early 1900
and led to the deaths of many Christians, both missionaries and Chinese converts.
Members of
this movement were called "Boxers" by Westerners because of their
rituals of martial arts and
calisthenics. They belonged to a secret society in northern China that believed
that Western
influences were destroying Chinese culture. The aim of the Boxers was to overthrow
the Qing
Dynasty and expel all foreigners and foreign influences from China. See an
online exhibit about the Boxer Rebellion at http://www.library.yale.edu/div/exhibits/boxers.htm.
- Student
Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions
The Student
Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was an organization founded in 1886
that sought to recruit college and university students in the United States
for missionary service abroad. It also sought to publicize and encourage the
missionary enterprise in general. Many of the American college graduates who
went to teach at the Christian colleges and universities in China were Student
Volunteers and their application forms for membership in the SVM are available
in the Archives of
the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions at Yale
Divinity Library.
-
United Board for Christian Higher Education in
Asia:
The United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, formerly known
as the United Board for Christian Colleges in China, was established to
support and coordinate the activities of Protestant colleges and universities
in China. Following the Communist takeover of China, the United Board focused
its efforts on educational work in other Asian nations. Archives
of the United Board are available at the Yale
Divinity Library; microfilm of the archives is available via Inter-Library
Loan.
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