CHCD Releases the Gazetteer (No. 6), September 2024
On September 2024, the China Historical Christian Database team released the sixth issue of the Gazetteer, the project’s quarterly newsletter. This issue features the release of CHCD 2.0, improvements to the database made by our summer interns, introductions of our international researchers and new project manager, and more. To download the issue, click the button…
Announcing CHCD 2.0
The second version of the China Historical Christian Database was released in the fall of 2023. It includes significant technical updates as well as new data. Highlights of this new release are summarized below. Technical Updates Data Updates For more information, please feel free to watch a recording of the launch of CHCD 2.0 where…
CHCD Lecture Series: “The Stories Behind the Names of the Orthodox Christians in the China Historical Christian Database,” September 2023
On September 11th, Dr. Aleksandrs Dmitrenko gave a lecture entitled “The Stories Behind the Names of the Orthodox Christians in the China Historical Christian Database” sponsored by the Center for Global Christianity & Mission. Dr. Dmitrenko uncovered some of the names and stories of Orthodox missionaries and lay people who will shortly appear in the China Historical…
CHCD Releases the Gazetteer (No. 5), May 2023
On May 6 2023, the China Historical Christian Database team released the fifth issue of the Gazetteer, the project’s quarterly newsletter. This issue features spring updates, information about our lecture series, preparation for the CHCD 2.0, and more. To download the issue, click the button below. You can also subscribe to receive the Gazetteer via…
CHCD Lecture Series, “Testing the Claim: The Sino-Foreign Protestant Enterprise as a Women’s Movement”, April 2023
On April 4th, Dr. Daryl R. Ireland (Boston University) and Dr. Alex R. Mayfield (Asbury University) gave the third CHCD lecture series of Spring 2023 entitled “Testing the Claim: The Sino-Foreign Protestant Enterprise as a Women’s Movement”. In her influential essay 2006 essay, Dana L. Robert made the case for “World Christianity as a Women’s…
CHCD Lecture Series, “Fresh News from China: Chinese Documents in the Propaganda Fide Archives”, March 2023
On March 28 2023, Dr. Eugenio Menegon gave the second CHCD lecture of Spring 2023, entitled “Fresh News from China: Chinese Documents in the Propaganda Fide Archives”. This lecture introduced the recently published Catalogue of Chinese Documents in the ‘Propaganda Fide’ Historical Archives (1622-1830). This volume offers not only an annotated list of its invaluable…
CHCD Featured on The Brink of Boston University, Feb 2023
On Feb 2 2023, The Brink, which delivers latest news from Boston University research, featured a story on development of the China Historical Christian Database with a Q&A between Dr. Ireland and the editor. Please click this link to view the original article on The Brink, entitled “What’s behind Boom of Christianity in China? –…
CHCD Releases the Gazetteer (No. 4) & Holiday Special Edition, December 2022
On Dec 14, 2022, the China Historical Christian Database team released the fourth issue of the Gazetteer, the project’s quarterly newsletter. This issue features summer updates, information about our first guest lecture, CHCD students’ poster presentations from Boston University’s UROP Symposium, and more. Also included is a special holiday update on the state of data…
CHCD Releases the Gazetteer (no. 3), February 2022
On February 1, 2022, the China Historical Christian Database team released the third issue of the Gazetteer, the quarterly newsletter of the project. This issue features information about our cleaning process, our challenge grant, profiles on student researchers, a profile of our first data release, and more. To download the issue, click the button below.…
CHCD Releases the Gazetteer (no. 2), October 2021
On October 1, 2021, the China Historical Christian Database team released the second issue of the Gazetteer, the quarterly newsletters of the project. This issue features information about our recent NEH award, our ongoing challenge grant, profiles on student researchers, current data estimates, and more. To download the issue, click the button below. You can…
CHCD Awarded Prestigious NEH Grant, August 2021
On August 17, 2021, The Center for Global Christianity and Mission (CGCM) was awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for their project “China Historical Christian Database: Mapping the Spatial and Social Networks of Christianity in China, 1550-1950.” This peer-reviewed grant is one of only 20 Digital Humanities…
CHCD Releases the Gazetteer (no. 1), June 2021
On June 15, 2021, the China Historical Christian Database team released the first issue of the Gazetteer, the quarterly newsletters of the project. This first issue features information about our challenge grant, profiles on student researchers, current data estimates, and more. To download the first issue, click the button below. You can also subscribe to…
Mayfield Presents on Research on the Pentecostal Network of Hong Kong, February 2021
On February 25, 2021, Alex Mayfield presented his research on the pentecostal network of Hong Kong from 1907 to 1942. Utilizing over a thousand primary sources, Alex reconstructed the pentecostal network of Hong Kong by tracking people’s movements, relationships, and the institutions they built. In many ways, this research project served as a conceptual testing…
Review and Recordings from Workshop, November 2020
On Thursday-Saturday, 19-21 November 2020 Boston University Center for Global Christianity and Mission hosted an online workshop with major financial support from the Boston University Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA) & the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA). Enititled “Mapping Christianity in China, 1550-1950: Developing Relational and Geospatial Tools for the Study of Christianity…
BU TODAY interviews CHCD Team, November 2020
In an article on BU Today, members of the CHCD Team discuss their work on the China Historical Christian Database based at the Center for Global Christianity & Mission at the BU School of Theology. The project seeks to visualize the presence of Christianity in China from 1550 to 1950. Eugenio Menegon (CAS History), Daryl Ireland (STH) and Alex Mayfield…
Online Workshop Announced, November 2020
On Thursday-Saturday, 19-21 November 2020 Boston University Center for Global Christianity and Mission will host an online workshop with major financial support from the Boston University Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA) & the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA). Mapping Christianity in China, 1550-1950: Developing Relational and Geospatial Tools…
Research and Development Grant Awarded, June 2018
In early June, Professor Eugenio Menegon (Chinese History), together with co-investigator Prof. Daryl Ireland (Associate Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission & Research Assistant Professor of Mission, BU’s School of Theology) received the exciting news that a Digital Humanities Project they are jointly sponsoring was awarded a seed grant for Summer 2018 by the BU Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational…