History of Christianity in China
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The China Historical Christian Database, based at the School of Theology’s Center for Global Christianity & Mission and being built by researchers there and at CAS, gets granular: it features maps and other resources showing where Christian churches, schools, hospitals, orphanages, and publishing houses were located in China, how long they operated, and who worked in them.
The data will span from the 1550s, when Jesuit missionaries first arrived in China, to 1950, following the creation of the Communist People’s Republic. (“Research after 1950 is done by other centers,” says Eugenio Menegon, CAS-History, “and is also politically sensitive, creating roadblocks to archival access.”) In an application for National Endowment for the Humanities funding, the researchers write that the database ‘will give users the ability to visualize exactly where, when, and for how long Christians were in any village, town, or city in China, and provide them the capacity to generate social network maps that reveal who was connected to whom.
Articles:
BU Today: BU Spearheads Massive Database of Centuries of Culture-Sharing between the West and China
Database: https://chcdatabase.com/
