The Chinese Repository

Cover of first volume
Editor	Elijah Coleman Bridgman S. Wells Williams
Founded	1832
Final issue	1851
Country	China
Based in	Canton

The Chinese Repository was a periodical published inCanton between May 1832 and 1851 to inform Protestantmissionaries working in Asia about the history and culture of China, of current events, and documents. The world's first major journal ofSinology,^[1] it was the brainchild ofElijah Coleman Bridgman, the firstAmerican Protestant missionary appointed to China. Bridgman served as itseditor until he left forShanghai in 1847, but continued to contribute articles. James Granger Bridgman succeeded him as editor, until September 1848, whenSamuel Wells Williams took charge.^[2]

• Barnett, Suzanne W. (1971). "Silent Evangelism: Presbyterians and the Mission Press in China, 1807-1860".Journal of Presbyterian History.49 (4):287–302.JSTOR 23327276.
• Johnson, Kendall (2017).The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade. Johns Hopkins University Press.ISBN 9781421422510.
• Malcolm, Elizabeth L. (1973). "The Chinese Repository and Western Literature on China 1800 to 1850".Modern Asian Studies.7 (2):165–178.doi:10.1017/S0026749X00004534.S2CID 145792763.

• Seeonline editions that can be downloaded at no cost
• The Chinese Repository, Bibliotheca Sinica,University of Vienna. Includes listing of the volumes available online.

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