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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:
  • Houghton Library, Harvard University
  • The Congregational Library and Archives, Boston, MA
  Microfilm copies of the ABCFM archives held by Harvard are available at:
  • Yale Divinity School Library : (obtainable via Inter-Library Loan)
  • Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton College : Guide to microfilm

• 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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