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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Archbishop John Chew's keynote address "Theological Education and Mission in East Asia: What can we do together?"

A 65-minute video of Archbishop John Chew's keynote address "Theological Education and Mission in East Asia: What can we do together?" presented on Thursday, 13 November 2008, Trinity Theological College, Singapore at the "Conference on Anglican Theological Education in East Asia " co-sponsored by CSCA and TEAC.


Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Biographies of Contemporary Chinese Christians

龙迪文编,《天風、金陵神学志今代中国教会基督徒传记》2004
Long Diwen, Biographies of Contemporary Chinese Christians published in Tiangfeng and Nanjing Theological Review (Singapore; Trinity Theological College, 2004). (djvu format) (controlled access)

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Thursday, October 23, 2008

In search of a relevant Anglicanism in East Asia, CCEA Theological Commission, 1987

In search of a Relevant Anglicanism in East Asia. Papers presented at the CCEA Theological Consultation, 2-7 February 1987, Quezon City, Philippines. (djvu format)

Mission Studies and Information Management. DAB Report, IAMS, Rome 1980

A. F. Walls and Willi Henkel, Mission Studies and Information Management. Report of a Working Party organized by the Committee on Documentation, Bibliography and Archives of the International Association for Mission Studies held in Urban University, Rome 24-30 July 1980.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Li Dong, Trinity Theological College remembered

This 11-minute video released by the Centre for the Study of Christianity of Asia, Singapore, contains Rev. Li Dong's recollection of his years at Trinity Theological College, Singapore in the early 1990s. Li Dong is the College's first 'China' student. He is at present the President of the Sichuan China Christian Council and Dean of Sichuan Theological Seminary, China. This recording took place on 2 October 2008 during Li's visit to Singapore on the occasion of the College's 60th anniversary. Li was invited by the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia to speak on Christianity in Sichuan. Li began his presentation with this reminiscence

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Video of Andrew F. Walls' Lecture A Century of Mission Documentation delivered at the DABOH Conference, 18 August 2008 at Balaton, Hungary

The following are links to the video of Professor Andrew F. Walls' keynote address A Century of Mission Documentation, delivered at the DABOH Conference during the IAMS Assembly, Balaton, Hungary on 18 August 2008. See http://www.missionstudies.org/4groups/DABOH/daboh.htm for details on the Conference. (All videos can be downloaded from Google Video).

A 66-minute video of the lecture: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9113610424832813802 (lower resolution)


Updated 20 September 2008:
A 78-minute video of the lecture and the Q&A (with contributions from Gerald Anderson, Siga Arles, Paul Stuehrenberg, and Danut Manastireanu) [better resolution]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4619009308960414070

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Ng Moon Hing, History and Mission of the Anglican Chinese Church in Malaysia

Ng Moon Hing, History and Mission of the Anglican Chinese Church in Malaysia (M.Div. Thesis, Seminari Theoloji Malaysia, 1989) (djvu format)

(Controlled access)

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The Canterbury Declaration of the Global South Anglican Theological Network

The Canterbury Declaration of the Global South Anglican Theological Network (1 August 2008), publicly released on 8 September 2008.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

The Johannine Awakening: Stirrings for the Post-2008 Anglican Communion

Reflections on the Lambeth Conference 2008: The Johannine Awakening: Stirrings for the Post-2008 Anglican Communion by Michael Poon.

See Michael Poon's other writings on the Anglican Communion at http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/poon/index.htm.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Papers presented at the DABOH Conference: Mission and Memory: Documenting World Christianity in the 21st Century, Balaton, Hungary, 16-23 August 2008

Papers presented at the
DABOH Conference: Mission and Memory: Documenting World Christianity in the 21st Century

International Association for Mission Studies
Balaton, Hungary, 16-23 August 2008

Compiled by Michael Poon, DABOH Convener

Introduction
  • Michael Poon, A Note of Welcome

  • Opening Keynote
    Address -- Andrew Walls, A Century of Mission Documentation
Taking Stock

The Americas
Africa
Western Europe
China
South East and South Asia
Issues and Strategies for Extending Access
Issues and Strategies for Regional Partnership
Giving Birth to a Successor Generation

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Anglican Catechism in Outline: A Common Home Between Us

The Final Report of the Global South Anglican Theological Formation and Education Task Force Report to the GSA Primates Steering Committee, Anglican Catechism in Outline: A Common Home Between Us, released on Barnabas Day, 11 June 2008 (ISBN: 978-981-08-0970-6).

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Lambeth Conference 2008: Personal Reflections by Michael Poon

Theological Reflections by Michael Poon on the Lambeth Conference 2008:

Friday, April 11, 2008

James Pong: Worldly Ambition vs Christian Vocation: Autobiography of a Chinese Bishop

庞德明 (James Pong), Bishop of Taiwan, Worldly Ambition vs Christian Vocation: Autobiography of a Chinese Bishop (in djvu format).

Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Sheng Gong Index (1955-1957)

The Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui ("Chinese Anglican") official publication The Chinese Churchmen (圣公会报) ceased publication after the political changes in China in 1949. On 2 January 1955 Chinese Churchmen (圣工).literally meaning "sacred work", was launched. It appeared more or less a quarterly magazine until the end of 1957, the eve of the "Great Leap Forward" in China.

This publication is not widely known nor available in public, however. Copies still survive in the China East (Huadong) Seminary in Shanghai, and in the Shanghai Municipal Library. It offers important insight on the life and work of the Chinese Anglicans in the beginnings of the post-denominational period in Chinese Christianity.

We are grateful to Miss Li Cuixiang for compiling the index. The (unofficial) English translation is provided by Michael Poon.

Sheng Gong (圣工)Index (1955-1957)

See also CSCA Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Source Documents.

Tian Feng Index for Year 1947 and 1948 updated

CSCA Tian Feng Index for Year 1947 and 1948 are updated with additions to issues not available in the ATLA Film AS0317. The Chinese nation and churches underwent radical changes from the end of the Pacific War in 1945 to the Korean War in the early 1950s. Tian Feng offers an important source in understanding what Christians in China thought and did in that tumultuous period.

See also the CSCA Introduction the Tianfeng Index (1948-1963).

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Carl T. Smith: A Bibliography

Rev. Carl T. Smith died in Macao on Monday, 7 April 2008. The following is a compilation of his writings over forty years in Hong Kong and Macao.

Bibliography

The Lands Office of the Registrar-General's Department: a source for the social history of the Chinese in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: s.n.

"Early European Buildings in Hong Kong." Chung Chi Bulletin 38 (1965): 14-20.

"Schools and scholars : English language education in the China Mission in the first half of the nineteenth century and it's results." S.l.: s.n., 1965.

"Commissioner Lin's Translators." Chung Chi Bulletin 42, no. 29-36 (1967).

"A Heideggerian Interpretation of The Way of Lao Tsu." Ching Feng 10, no. 2 (1967): 5-19.

"Radical Theology and the Confucian Tradition." Ching Feng 10, no. 4 (1967): 20-33.

"An Early Hong Kong Success Story: Wei Akwong, the Beggar Boy." Chung Chi Bulletin 45 (1968): 9-14.

"A Study of the Missionary Education Philosophy of Samuel R. Brown from the perspective of Interfaith Encounter." Ching Feng 12, no. 2 (1969): 2-19.

"The Gillespie Brothers: early Links between hong Kong and California." Chung Chi Bulletin 47, no. 23-28 (1969).

"Ng Akew, one of Hong Kong's 'Protected Women'." Chung Chi Bulletin 46 (1969): 13-27, 27.

"A Register of Baptized Protestant Chinese, 1813-1842." Chung Chi Bulletin 49 (1970): 23-26.

"The Chinese Settlement of British Hong Kong." Chung Chi Bulletin 48 (1970): 26-32.

"Dr Legge's Theological School." Chung Chi Bulletin 50 (1971): 16-22.

"Americans Buried at Macao, China." National Genealogical Society Quarterly 59, no. 2 (1971): 114-117.

"The Formative Years of the Tong Brothers: Pioneers in the Modernization of China's Commerce and Industry." Chung Chi Journal 10, no. 1 & 2 (1971): 81-95.

"The Emergence of a Chinese Elite in Hong Kong." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 11 (1971): 74-115.

"An Historical Survey of an Overseas Chinese Community: Dayton, Ohio." Chung Chi Bulletin 54 (1973): 30-33.

"Idols on a School Hill: The American Board School for Chinese Boys at Singapore, 1835-1842." Chung Chi Bulletin 55 (1973): 28-30.

"Notes on Chinese Temples in Hong Kong." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 13 (1973): 133-139.

"The Chinese Church in a Colonial Setting: Hong Kong." Ching Feng 17, no. 2 & 3 (1974): 75-89.

"Programme Notes for Visits to Old Forts of Hong Kong Island (urban Areas), and to Kowloon, in 1974." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 14 (1974): 196-230.

"A Brief History of the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao." In The Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao 1849-1974: A Brief History and the 1974 List of Churches, Primary and Secondary Schools, Social Welfare Centres. Hong Kong: Diocesan Office, 1974.

"English-educated Chinese Elites in the Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong." In Hong Kong: the Interaction of Tradition and Life in the Towns, ed. Marjorie Topley, 65-96. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1975.

Smith, Carl T., and James Hayes. "Hung Hum: an early Industrial Village in old British Kowloon." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (1975): 318-324.

"Early American Trade in China and Hong Kong: Russell and Company and the Houqua Family." Hong Kong Amcham 7, no. 7 (1976): 14-17.

"Notes on the Earliest Missionaries in Hong Kong." Ching Feng 19, no. 3 & 4 (1976): 24-28.

"Chan Lai-sun and his Family: a 19th Century China Coast family." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 16 (1976): 112-116.

"Notes on Friends and relatives of Taiping Leaders." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 16 (1976): 117-134.

"Notes on Tung Wah Hospital, Hong Kong." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 16 (1976): 263-280.

"A Glance Backward: Auditoria, Artistes and Amateurs in Hong Kong." Hong Kong Arts Centre Opening Celebrations 1977, 29-33.

"The Early Hong Kong Church and Traditional Chinese Family Patterns." Ching Feng 20, no. 1 (1977): 52-60.

"The Protestant Church and the Improvement of Women's Status in the 19th Century China." Ching Feng 20, no. 2 (1977): 109-115.

"Sun Yat-sen as a Middle School Student in Hong Kong." Ching Feng 20, no. 3 (1977): 153-165.

"Sun Yat-sen's Middle school Days in Hong Kong: The Establishment of Alice Memorial Hospital." Ching Feng 21, no. 2 (1978): 78-94.

"Sun Yat-sen's Baptism and some Christian Connections." Ching Feng 22, no. 4 (1979): 170-189.

"The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Compradors." In HSBC Conference. Centre of Asia Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1981.

"The Chinese Church, Labour and Elites and the Mui Tsai question in the 1920s." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 21 (1981): 91-113.

"The Hong Kong Amateur Dramatic Club and its Predecessors." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 22 (1982): 217-251.

"A Look at Ching Feng over the past Twenty-five years." Ching Feng 25, no. 4 (1982): 195-205.

"Compradors of Hong Kong Bank." In Eastern Banking: Essays in the History of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, ed. Frank H. H. King, 93-111. London: Athlone Press, 1983.

"The Adaption of the Protestant Church to a Chinese and Colonial Situation." Ching Feng 26, no. 2 & 3 (1983): 75-98.

"Shamshuipo: From Proprietary Villages to Industrial Urban Complex." In From Village to City: Studies in the Traditinal Roots of hong Kong Society, ed. David Faure, 73-105. Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1984.

"Congregational and Visitors' Registers at Tao Fong Shan." In Karl Ludvig Reichelt: Missionary, Scholar and Pilgrim, ed. Eric J. Sharpe, 203-206. Hong Kong: Tao Fong Shan Ecumenical Centre, 1984.

"Notes for a Visit to the Government Cemetery at Happy Valley." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 25 (1985): 17-26.

Chinese Christians: elites, middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong. 1st ed. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1985.

"The German Speaking Community in Hong Kong 1846-1918." Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34 (1994): 1-55.

"Protected women in 19th-century Hong Kong." In Women and Chinese patriarchy: submission, servitude and escape ed. Maria Jaschok and Suzanne Miers, 221-237. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1994.

A sense of history: studies in the social and urban history of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Educational Pub. Co., 1995.

"The Wai Sing lottery and its network of Macau, Canton and Hong Kong capitalists." In The rise of business corporations in China from Ming to present, ed. Chinese Business History Conference: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1996.

"Armenian strands in the tangled web of the opium trade at Macau and Canton." In International symposium on Lin Zexu, the Opium War and Hong Kong. Hong Kong, 1998.

Smith, Carl T., and James Hayes. "Nineteenth Century Yaumatei." In In the heart of the metropolis: Yaumatei and its people, ed. P. H. Hase, 96-109. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (H.K.) Company Ltd, 1999.

"Wanchai: in search of an identity." In Hong Kong: a reader in social history, ed. David Faure, 157-209. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2003.

"The China trade painters' portrayal of Macau's Praia Grande." In University Museum and Art Gallery Symposium: picturing cathay: maritime and cultural images of the China trade. The University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong: University Museum and Art Gallery, 2003.

"Sino-Indian interactions in the 18th and 19th centuries : Parsees, Armenians and Muslims in Macao, Guangzhou and Hong Kong." In Distinguished Fellow Award Ceremony for Rev. Carl T. Smith, Thursday, 9 October 2003. Council Chamber, 8/F., Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Culture and Society Programme and China-India Project, Centre of Asian Studies, HKU, 2003.

"An eighteenth-century Macao Armenian merchant prince." Review of Culture S. 3, no. 6 (2003): 120-129.

Smith, Carl T., and Paul A. Van Dyke. "Armenian footprints in Macao." Review of Culture S. 3, no. 8 (2003): 20-39.

"Four Armenian Families." Review of Culture S. 3, no. 8 (2003): 40-50.

"Muslims in the Pearl River Delta, 1700 to 1930." Review of Culture S. 3, no. 10 (2004): 6-15.

"Parsee Merchants in the Pearl River Delta." Review of Culture S. 3, no. 10 (2004): 36-49.

Chinese Christians: elites, middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong. new ed. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005.

Carl Smith's index card collection is deposited at Hong Kong Records Office. Consult the online catalogue of his Collection.

Carl Smith also donated to the Archives at Hong Hong Baptist University Library "over 300 manuscripts and monographs including yearbooks and anniversary reports of some Christian churches and organizations in Hong Kong and China, as well as biographies of Christian leaders and missionaries".



In Memoriam: The Reverend Carl Thurman Smith (1918-2008)

The Reverend Carl Thurman Smith, missionary and historian, died in Macao on 7 April 2008. Funeral service is to be held on Thursday 10 April 2008.

The directions from Mei Foo MTR to his apartment were precise, as fitting for a historian. So Carl Smith welcomed me to his sanctuary eight years ago and unfolded to me horizons of Christian charity and ardent scholarship. His flat at Mei Foo was in truth a sanctuary, lined wall-to-wall and floor to ceiling with tomes of history and meticulously filed notes that silently witnessed to over forty years of devotion to the histories of South China, Macao and Hong Kong. The lunch with pan-fried fillet prepared by Dolly at that first visit celebrated the beginning of our friendship. Our common interest in Macao and Sheng Kung Hui’s history provided the occasion for many happy conversations in the following years. Carl would later unreservedly guide me to the worlds of archival studies and historiograhies. In God’s providence, Macao – the City of God, and Morrison Chapel – God’s acre in the Far East – would be the final stop of his earthly pilgrimage. Carl Smith is an exemplary gentleman, scholar, missionary and friend. With a pure and single heart he devoted himself to what God has entrusted him: towards preserving the histories of his adopted homes in the Far East.

He generously gave and enriched us all, for much he has received from God.

Good things and bad, life and death,
Poverty and wealth, come from the Lord.
The gift of the Lord endures for those who are godly,

And what he approves will have lasting success.

. . . .
Stand by our task and attend to it,
And grow old in your work.
(Ecclesiasticus 11:14, 20)

May God grant his faithful servant eternal rest.

**

Carl Smith's favorite hymn: Jesus, I live to Thee, the loveliest and best

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

The Global South Anglican: its origins and development

This essay by Michael Poon examines the origins and development of “Global South Anglican”, and explores its ramifications for the Anglican Communion. The exploration sets its emergence in the context of internal ecclesiastical conflicts within the Episcopal Church and the Church of England. Disaffected clerics were instrumental in introducing “global South” geopolitics into the Communion debates. The essay calls into question the perceptions of churches in the South by Western interpreters, Philip Jenkins included. It ends by setting out the responsibilities facing Anglican churches in the Southern Hemisphere if they were to chart independently their own long-term welfare.

The Global South Anglican: its origins and development (in pdf);
Also available at Global South Anglican, http://www.globalsouthanglican.org/index.php/weblog/comments/the_global_south_anglican_its_origins_and_development_michael_nai_chiu_poon/

For other Anglican studies by the author, click here.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Southern Bell Index (1963-2000)

The Southern Bell (南钟), published in traditional Chinese script, chronicles what (ethnic) Chinese Methodists think and do in Malaysia (which before 1965, included Singapore). It is the official magazine issued by the Methodist Church in the region. The publisher underwent several name changes, according to the restructuring of the churches in the 1960s to 1970s in Southeast Asia. Southern Bell was published in the early 1960s by the Methodist Church, Southeast Asia (东南亚中华基督教卫理公会). From 1965 (Volume32 issue 1, it came under the Methodist Church, Malaysia (马来西亚中华基督教卫理公会). By the fourth issue of the same year, it came under the Methodist Church, Malaysia & Singapore (马来西亚及新加坡中华基督教卫理公会). From 1969 (Volume 36 issue 2), the Chinese name was again changed to 马来西亚及新加坡基督教自治卫理公会, (literally translated, "the self-governing Methodist Church, Malaysia and Singapore", while dropping the "Chinese (zhonghua)" reference. From 1977 (Volume 44), the Methodist Church, Chinese Annual Conference, Malaysia (马来西亚基督教卫理公会华人年议会) took ownership of the magazine. See Index