ABSTRACT

This chapter provides scholars' guide to the primary and secondary sources produced by and about Christian enterprises and individuals in China, especially missions and missionary activity, and preserved in hundreds of repositories at Baltimore in Maryland. Comments on the origin of the collection, biographical information on the subject of the collection, or other miscellaneous details concerning the collection are noted. Description of the items in each collection is organized by the broad type of material as indicated by the category headings, generally in the following sequence: subject, volume and dates, and any distinguishing features. The chapter also includes updated contact information, with e-mail contacts and internet addresses for immediate contact and research, and the indices have been revised as well. It describes the contents of every record group in a general way in Guide to the National Archives of the United States.