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Title: Christian Literature Society for China Annual Report
Issuing Body: Christian Literature Society for China
Denomination: Non-denominational
Place: Glasgow
Publisher: Christian Literature Society for China
Volume Numbers: 1-58
Date: Dec 1885-Mar 1942
Frequency: Annual
Region of Work: East Asia
Field of Activity/Special: Literature
Illustrations: B/w photographs (1899-)
Principal Locations: SOAS b
Features: List of contributors
Obituaries
Comments: At the China Missionary Conference held at Shanghai in 1877, a "School and Text Book Committee" was set up, with Alexander Williamson of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the Chair. The vigorous activities of this committee led in December 1884 to the founding of the Book and Tract Society of China in Glasgow, and the purchase of a printing press. It was soon realised that operating from Britain was impracticable, and the press was sold and a new constitution drawn up "to carry out the objects of the Society by making grants of money, books, pamphlets, periodicals, tracts, or leaflets to Societies or individuals engaged in missionary or educational work amongst the Chinese...";In 1886 a society was mooted to distribute the literature produced, and an agent of Jardine, Matheson and Company was given power of attorney in Shanghai to promote the scheme. The Society for the Diffusion of Christian and General Knowledge among the Chinese duly came into existence, in Shanghai, in 1887. The two societies were generally identified, and when in 1892 the Book and Tract Society reorganized itself into the Christian Literature Society for China, with the special aim of supporting the Diffusion Society, the new name was applied indiscriminately to both. In 1906 the Diffusion Society itself adopted the name.;In 1941 the London committee of the Christian Literature Society for China joined the United Society for Christian Literature, and in 1942 the Scottish committee followed.


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