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).

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.

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