My Library

Bill Brown ... Xiamen University

Some have asked what books I use. Below is a partial list of my library (over recent years, I've collected hundreds of books, mainly from online bookstores through www.abebooks.com or www.addall.com). I'll complete this short bibliography when I have time.

Abend, Hallett, “Treaty Ports,” Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, New York, 1944

Allom, Thomas and Wright, the Reverend G.N., “China in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits of that Ancient Empire,” Fisher, London and Paris, 1843.

“Greetings from Amoy; Amoy Mission, 1842-1907,” Pamphlet by Reformed Church of America.

“Asia Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependencies,”; Supplementary Intelligence, Vol. XXVI, July to December 1828, London, 1828

Ball, Benjamin Lincoln, “Rambles in Eastern Asia: Including China and Manila, During Several Years Residence,” James French and Company, Boston, 1856

Band, Edward, “Working His Purpose Out: The History of the English Presbyterian Mission,” Presbyterian Church of England, London, 1948

Barbour, George F., “China and the Missions at Amoy, with Notice of the Opium Trade,” William P. Kennedy, Edinburgh, 1855.

Bax, Captain B.W., R.N, “The Eastern Seas; Being a Narrative of the ‘Dwarf’ in China, Japan, and Formosa,” John Murray, London, 1875

Beach, Harlan P., “Dawn on the Hills of T’ang, or, Missions in China,” Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions,” New York, 1905

Bedloe, Edward, M.D., U.S. Consul, reporting in “Weekly Abstract of Sanitary Reports,” Supervising Surgeon-General M.H,S., Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893

Bedloe, Edward, M.D., U.S. Consul in Amoy, :”Public Health Reports, Vol. 2, January 1, 1881

Beltman, Henry, “90 Years with Uncle Henry,” Robert Schuller Ministries, Garden Grove, California, 1984

Bishop, Mrs. J.F., “Chinese Pictures; Notes on Photographs Made in China,” Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1900

Blakeslee, George H., Editor, “China and the Far East: Clark University Lectures,” Thomay Y. Crowell and Co., New York, 1910

Bonar, Rev. Andrew A., “MEMOIR of the Life and Brief Ministry of REV. DAVID SANDEMAN,” JAMES NISBET & Co., LONDON, 1861.

Breck, Samuel, “Descendants of Aaron and Mary (Church) Magoun, of Pembroke, Massachusetts, Third Edition,” Washington, D.C., 1891 p. 21

Breuer, Hans, “Columbus was Chinese, Discoveries and Inventions of the Far East,” Herder and Herder, New York, 1972

Brown, C. Campbell, “China in Legend and Story,” Fleming H. Revell Company, NY, 1907

Caldwell, George W., M.D., “Oriental Rambles,” Published by G.W. Caldwell, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1906.

Clarke, Basil, “Chinese Science and the West,” Nile & MacKenzie, Ltd. London, 1980.

Close, Upton, “In the Land of the Laughing Buddha; the Adventures of an American Barbarian in China,” G.P. Putnam and Sons, New York & London, 1924.

Coffin, George, A Pioneer Voyage to California and Round the World, 1849 to 1852” Gorham B. Coffin, Illinois, June, 1908.

Cope, Captain, "A New History of the East-Indies: With Brief Observations on the Religion, Customs, Manners and Trade of the Inhabitants...", M. Cooper, London, 1754.

Corwin, Edward Tanjore, D.D. “A Manual of the Reformed Church in America (Formerly Reformed Dutch Church), 1628-1902, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1902.

Cressy-Marcks, Violet, “Journey into China,” E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1942

Gordon-Cumming, Miss, “The Explosion at Amoy,” St. James’ Gazette, in Littell’s Living Age, Feb. 4, 1888, pp. 314-316

Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, “Dottings Round the Circle,” James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1876

Darley, Mary, “Cameos of a Chinese City,” [Jian ‘Ou] Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, Missionary Society, 27 Chancery Lane, London, 1917

Darley, Mary, “The Light of the Morning,” Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, Missionary Society, 27 Chancery Lane, London, 1903

Davis, Rev. J.A., “The Young Mandarin; a Story of Chinese Life” Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, Boston and Chicago, 1896

Dean, William, “The China Mission: Embracing a History of the Various Missions of All Denominations Among the Chinese, with Biographical Sketches of Deceased Missionaries,” Sheldon & Co., New York, 1859

De Jong, Gerald F., “The Reformed Church in China 1842-1951,” Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Michigan, 1992

Denby, Hon. Charles, LL.D., [Thirteen Years United States Minister to China], “China and Her People: Being the Observations, Reminiscences, and Conclusions of an American Diplomat, Vol. II, L.C. Page and Company, Boston, 1906

Dennis, Rev. James S., “Christian Missions and Social Progress: A Sociological Study of Foreign Missions,” Vol. III, Fleming H. Revell Company, NY, 1906

Dobell, Peter, “Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia, with a Narrative of a Residence in China, Vol. II, London, 1830. Dobell: Counselor of the Court of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia” pp.309, 310

Dukes, Edwin Joshua, “Everyday Life in China; or, Scenes Along River and Road in Fuh-Kien,” London Missionary Society’s Edition, The Religious Tract Society, 56, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and 164, Piccadilly, 1885

Duryea, Rev. William Rankin Duryea, D.D., “The Amoy Mission,” Excerpted from “A Manual of the Missions of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America,” by Sangster, Mrs. Margaret E., Ed.; Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America, New York, 1877, pp.170-209

Edkins, Joseph, D.D., “Introduction to the Study of the Chinese Characters,” Trubner and Company, London, 1875

Edkins, Jane Rowbotham Stobbs, “Chinese Scenes and People: With Notices of Christian Missions and Missionary Life in a Series of Letters from Various Parts of China,” James Nisbit and Company, London, 1863

English Presbyterian Messenger, Vol 1. 1st May 1845 to 31st December 1847, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., Paternoster-Row, London, 1847

Eve, Paul F. M.D. and Garvin, I.P. M.D. “The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal Vol. 1 - 1845 New Series,” P.C. Guieu Publisher, Augusta, Jan. 1845

Fisher, Lena Leonard, “The River Dragon’s Bride,” Abingdon Press, New York, 1922

Ford, John D., “An American Cruiser in the East, Travels and Studies in the Far East,” 2nd Edition, With an Account of the Battle of Manila, April 30, 1898, A.S. Barnes and Company, New York, 1898 Note: Ford was First Engineer of the Pacific Station, United States Navy.

Foster, John W., “American Diplomacy in the Orient,” 1903.

Franck, Harry A., “Roving Through Southern China,” The Century Co., New York, 1925.

Fullerton, W.Y., andWilson, C.E., “New China—A Story of Modern Travel,” Morgan and Scott, Ltd., (Office of the Christian), 12 Paternoster Buildings, London, 1910.

Gamewell, Mary Ninde, “New Life Currents in China,” Interchurch Press, New York, 1919

Gaunt, Rev. L.H., Ed., “The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, Vol. VIII – No. 85 New Series,” London, 1899

Giles, Herbert Allen, L.L.D., “China and the Chinese,” Columbia University Press, New York, 1902

Gillespie, Rev. William, “The Land of Sinim, or, China and Chinese Missions,” Myles Macphail, London, 1854 [Gillespie was “For seven years agent of the London Missionary Society at Hong-Kong and Canton, and now minister of the United Presbyterian Church, Shiels, Aberdeen.”]

Graves, Rev. Rosewell Hobart, “Forty Years in China,” R.H. Woodward Company, Baltimore, 1895.

Griffis, William Elliot Griffis, D.D., L.H.D., “Hepburn of Japan, and His Wife and Helpmates; a Life Story of Toil for Christ,” Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1913

Gutzlaff, Karl F. A., “Journal of Three Voyages Along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832, and 1833,” Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, London, 1834.

Gutzlaff, Charles, Rev. by Rev. Andrew Reed, D.D., “China Opened; or, A Display of the Topography, History, Customs, Manners, Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, Literature, Religion, Jurisprudence, etc. of the Chinese Empire,” Vol. II Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1838.

Haffner, Christopher, “Amoy—The Port and the Lodge,” The Corinthian Lodge of Amoy, No. 1806 EC, Hong Kong, 1997

Hart, Robert, “These from the Land of Sinim: Essays on the Chinese Questions,” Chapman and Hall, London, 1901.

Hewlett, Sir Meyrick, “Forty Years in China,” Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1943.

Hobson, John M.,”The Eastern Origins of Western Civilization,” Cambridge University Press, U.K., 2004.

Holkeboer, Tena, “God’s Bridge, or the Story of Jin-Gi,” Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI, 1944

Hollister, Mary Brewster, “Lady Fourth Daughter of China,” The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1932

Hughes, George, [Commissioner of Imperial Maritime Customs at Amoy] “Amoy and Surrounding Districts,” De Souza and Company, Hong Kong, 1872

Hurlbut, Floy, “The Fukienese: a Study in Human Geography,” Doctoral dissertation for University of Nebraska, 1939

Johnston, Rev. James., “China and Formosa; The Story of a Successful Mission,” Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld. London, 1898

Johnston, Meta and Lena, Jin Ko-Niu—A Brief Sketch of the Life of Jessie M. Johnston For Eighteen Years W.M.A. Missionary in Amoy, China, T. French Downie 21 Warwick Lane, London, E.C. 1907

Joseland, Rev. Frank P. “Our Missionary Districts, Amoy and Chiang-Chiu”, in Gaunt, 1899.

Keith, Marian, “The Black Bearded Barbarian: The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa,” The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, The Young People’s Forward Movement Department, Toronto, 1912.

Kesson, John (of the British Museum),“The Cross and the Dragon, or, The Fortunes of Christianity in China, with Notices of the Christian Missions and Missionaries, and some Accounts of the Chinese Secret Societies,”Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1854.pp.195-197

King, F. H. , D. Sc., “Farmers of Forty Centuries, or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan,” University of Wisconsin, 1911

King, John W., Master, R.N.,The China Pilot, Comprising the Coasts of China, Korea, and Tartary; The Sea of Japan, Gulfs of Tartary and Amur, and Sea of Okhotsk; and the …” 3rd Edition, Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 1861.

Knollys, Major Henry, “English Life in China,” Smith, Elder & Company, London, 1885

Kwantes, Helen, “She has done a Beautiful Thing for me; Portraits of Christian Women in Asia.” OMF Books.

LaMotte, Ellen N., “Peking Dust,” The Century Company, New York, 1919.

Lawrence, James B., U.S.M.C. “China and Japan, and a Voyage Thither: An Account of a Cruise in the Waters of the East Indies, China and Japan,” Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Hartford, Connecticut, 1870.

Lawrence, Una Roberts, “Lottie Moon,” Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, 1927

Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman,”Portraits from a Chinese Scroll,” the John C. Winston Company, Chicago, 1938

Lin, Yutang, “My Country and My People,” Foreign Language and Teaching Press, Beijing, 1998.

Little, Archibald, Mrs. “Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them,” Hutchinson & Co., London, 1899

Lockhart, William, The Medical Missionary in China: A Narrative of Twenty Years' Experience, Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Spottiswoode and Company, London, 1861

Lowrie, Rev. Walter M., “Memoirs,” Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, New York, 1850.

Lu, C.C., of Ningpo, China “China and England: a Lecture Delivered at Sheffield University,” Sheffield Independent Press, Sheffield, U.K., 1904

MacCauley, Hastings, Kathay, A Cruise in the China Seas, 1852, p.142

MacCauley, Hastings, Life Among the Chinese, Carlton and Porter, New York, 1861.

Macgowan, John, “How England Saved China,” T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1913.

Macgowan, John, “Beside the Bamboo,” London Missionary Society, 16 New Bridge Street, London, 1914.

Macgowan, Rev. John, “Christ or Confucius, Which?, or, The Story of the Amoy Mission,” London Missionary Society, 14 Blomfield Street, E.C.; John Snow & Co., 2 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, E.C. 1895

Macgowan, Rev. John, “Lights and Shadows of Chinese Life,” North China Daily News & Herald Ltd., Shanghai, 1909

Macgowan, Rev. John, “Men and Manners of Modern China,” T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1912. use, 43 Gerrard Street, W. 1907

Macgowan, Rev. John, “Pictures of Southern China,” The Religious Tract Society, London, 1897

Macgowan, Rev. John, “Sidelights on Chinese Life,” Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Limited, Dryden H

Macguire, Theophane, C.P., “Hunan Harvest, Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, 1946.

Maclay, Rev. R. S., “Life Among the Chinese: With Characteristic Sketches and incidents of Missionary Operations and Prospects in China,” Carlton & Porter, New York, 1861.

Manson-Bahr, Sir Philip, “Patrick Manson, The Father of Tropical Medicine,” Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., Edinburgh, 1962

Martin, Robert Montgomery, China; political, commercial, and social; in an official report to her Majesty's Government, Vol. II, James Madden, London, 1847

Matheson, Donald, Esq., “Narrative of the Mission to China of the English Presbyterian Church, with Remarks on the Social Life and Religious Ideas of the Chinese, by the Rev. James MacGowan (London Missionary Society of Amoy), and Notes on Climate, Health and Outfit, By John Carnegie, Esq., M.D. of Amoy”, James Nisbet and Company, London, 1866.

Matheson, Mrs., Ed., Memorials of Hugh M. Matheson [1921-1898] Edited by his wife with a prefatory note by the Rev. J. Oswald Dykes, M.A., D.D. Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1899

Mathews, Basil, and Southon, Arthur E., “Torchbearers in China, Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada,” New York, 1924

Mayers, Wm. Fred, and Dennys, N.B., “The Treaty Ports of China and Japan,” Trubner & Company, London, 1867

Menpes, Mortimer, and Blake, Sir Arthur Henry, “China,” Adam and Charles Black, London, 1909.

“Messenger and Missionary Record of the Presbyterian Church in England,” London, 1875

Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society, “The Gospel in All Lands Illustrated,” Eugene R. Smith, Publisher, New York, Jan.-June, 1881

Michie, Alexander, “The Englishman in China During the Victorian Period, as Illustrated by the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan, Vol. I”, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1900

Millard, Thomas E., “Our Eastern Question: America’s Contact with the Orient and the Trend of Relations with China and Japan,” The Century Company, NY, 1916

Murray, Lieutenant Alexander,[18th Royal Irish] “Doings in China—Being the Personal Narrative of an Officer Engaged in the Late Chinese Expedition, From the Recapture of Chusan in 1841 to the Peace in Nankin in 1842.” Richard Bentley, London, 1843

Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1852, A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Notes on a Voyage to China in Her Majesty’s Late Screw Steamer Reynard.—P. Cracroft, Commander. Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Ltd. pp. 429, 525, 579

Needham, Joseph, “Science in Traditional China,” Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1981.

Neill, Desmond, “Elegant Flower—First Steps in China,” John Murray, Albemarle St., London, 1956

Nevius, Helen S.C., “Our Life in China,” Robert Carter and Brothers, New York, 1869. P. 473, 474

Ng, Chin-Keong, “Trade and Society—The Amoy Network on the China Coast 1683-1735,” Singapore University Press, Singapore, 1983

Pinkerton, J., “A General Collection of Voyages and Travels, digested by J. Pinkerton,” 1811

Pitcher, Philip Wilson, “Fifty Years in Amoy, a History of the Amoy Mission,” Reformed Church of America Board of Publication, NY, 1893

Regnault, Elias, and Doane, Augustus Sidney, "The Criminal History of the English Government: From the First Massacre of the Irish, to the Poisoning of the Chinese," translated from the French, J.S. Redfield, New York, 1843

Richard, Timothy, “Forty Five Years in China; Reminiscences,” Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1916

Ross, Frank, Jr., “Oracle Bones, Stars, and Wheelbarrows, Ancient Chinese Science and Technology,” Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1982

Sadler, J., “Chinese Customs and Superstitions, or, What They do at Amoy,” China Review, XXII, No. 6, pp. 755-8

Sale, George, and others, “The Modern Part of an Universal History: From the Earliest Account of Time,” VOL. VIII, Compiled from Original Writers, Printed for Richardson, S., et al., London, 1759.

Sangster, Mrs. Margaret E., Ed.; “A Manual of the Missions of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America,” Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America, New York, 1877, pp.170-209

Scott, Roderick, “Fukien Christian University,” United Board for Christian Colleges in China, NY, 1954, p.97

Shore, Hon. Henry Noel, R.N., “The Flight of the Lapwing, A Naval Officer’s Jottings in China, Formosa and Japan,” Longmans, Green and Company, London, 1881

Smith, D. Warres, “European Settlements in the Far East,” Sampson, Low, Marston & Company, London, 1900

Smith, George, A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of China, on behalf of the Church Missionary Society, in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846,” Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1857.

Sirr, Henry Charles, “China and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufacturers; the Evils Arising from the Opium Trade,” Vol. I, Wm. S. Orr and Company, London 1849

Spencer, Cornelia “Made in China,” Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1958

Stock, Eugene, The History of the Church Missionary Society; its Environment, its Men and its Work, Vol. III,” Church Missionary Society, London, 1890.

Talman, Rose H., “Our China Years, 1916-1930,” unpublished notes, provided by Sarah Koeppe.

Temple, Robert, “The Genius of China; 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention,” Prion Books Limited, London, 1998.

Teresi, Dick, “Lost Discoveries, The Ancient Roots of Modern Science—from the Babylonians to the Maya,” Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002.

Timothy, Richard, “Forty-Five Years in China—Reminiscences by Timothy Richard, D.D., Litt.D.,” Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1916

Warnshuis, Rev. A.L., M.A., “A Brief Sketch of the Life and Work of Dr. John A. Otte,” Amoy Mission, China , 1911

Watson, Alfred T., “Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol. V, July to Dec. 1897”, Longmans, Green and Company, London, 1907

Webb, John, “The Antiquity of China, Or An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability that the language of the Empire of China is the Primitive Language spoken through the whole world before the Confusion of Babel. Wherein the Customes and Manners of ye Chineans are presented, and ancient and modern Authors consulted. With a large Map of the Countrey,” Obadiah Blagrave, &c., London, 1678

Werner, E.T.C., “Myths & Legends of China,” George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1922.

White, Francis Sellon, “A History of Inventions and Discoveries,” C. & J. Rivington, London, 1827

Williams, Dwight, Mrs., “A Year in China, and a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, when Homeward Bound, on Board the Rebel Pirate Florida; with an Introductory Note by William Cullen Bryant,” Hurd and Houghton, New York, 1864.
[Williams was the Commissioner of Customs at Swatow, employed by the Chinese].

Williams, Edward Thomas, “China—Yesterday and Today,” George G. Harrap & co., Ltd., London, 1923

Williamson, Rev. G.R., “Memoir of the Rev. David Abeel, D.D.” Robert Carter, New York, 1848

Related Books

Henslow, Geoffrey T., “Ye Sundial Booke”, W. and G. Foyle, London, 1935 (1st edition 1914). The 1914 edition is downloadable from Internet Archives.

Hyatt, Alfred H, “A Book of Sundial Mottoes,” Philip Wellby, London,1903

Leadbetter, Charles, "Mechanick Dialling: or, the New Art of Shadows : freed from the many Obscurities, Superfluities and Errors of Former Writers upon this Subject . . , To which are added a choice Collection of Mottos in Latin and English . . . “At the Black Swan,London,1737
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