The West China Missionary News

The West China Missionary News (WCMN) was a monthly news magazine published in Chengtu from 1899 to 1945 by the West China Missions Advisory Board, and printed by Canadian Methodist Mission Press.[1] It was aimed at Protestant missionaries working in the Sichuan Province (formerly romanized as Szechwan or Sz-Chuan; also referred to as "West China"),[2] and was the first and longest-running English-language newspaper in that province.[3]

The West China Missionary News
The West China Missionary News of January 1909 (vol. XI, No. 1)
CategoriesNews magazine, Protestant missions in Sichuan
FrequencyMonthly
Founded1899
First issue1899 (1899)
Final issue1945 (1945)
CompanyWest China Missions Advisory Board
CountryQing and Republican China
Based inChengtu
LanguageEnglish
OCLC7549478

Overview

The establishment of The West China Missionary News was one of the results of a Protestant Conference held at Chungking in January 1899.[4] The periodical was started as an organ of communication among various missionary workers.[5] As an English newspaper "for the missionaries, about missionaries and written by the missionaries themselves", the positions of editor-in-chief and manager were almost held exclusively by Western missionaries, but local editors such as S. C. Yang (Yang Shao-chuan) joined the editorial board later. Contributors included David Crockett Graham, Joseph Beech, Vyvyan Donnithorne, Thomas Torrance, Theo Sørensen, and Chʽeng-Tsi Song, just to name a few. Although principally aimed at missionaries in West China, the WCMN had subscription services for worldwide readers in Los Angeles. Its highest circulation was around 450. During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), the WCMN lost its overseas subscribers and fund donations, it ceased publication by the end of the war.[3]

See also

References
  1. Kyong-McClain, Jeff (2021). "Reaching Tibet: Anglophone Protestant Missionaries and the Chinese Civilizing Mission". The Newsletter. Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies (90): 10. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  2. Bond, Geo. J. (1911). Our Share in China and What We Are Doing with It. Toronto: Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. p. 90.
  3. Zhu, Yaling (2019). "The West China Missionary News and Its Tibet Narrative" (PDF). clausiuspress.com. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  4. Broomhall, Marshall, ed. (1907). "The Province of Szechwan". The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey. London: Morgan & Scott. p. 233.
  5. Wallace, Edward Wilson (1903). The Heart of Sz-Chuan. Toronto: Methodist Young People's Forward Movement for Missions. p. 80.
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