CATEGORY
Statistics and Data
ACCESS
open access
URL
https://chcdatabase.com/#about
DESCRIPTION
The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) is a comprehensive digital humanities project that quantifies and visualizes the place of Christianity in modern China from 1550 to 1950. The database documents the locations and personnel of Christian institutions including churches, schools, hospitals, orphanages, publishing houses, and other missionary establishments throughout China. For each institution, CHCD records both foreign missionaries and Chinese workers, creating detailed spatial maps and relational networks. These visualizations reveal patterns of how, when, and where Western ideas, technologies, and practices entered China through Christian missionary activity. Simultaneously, the database uncovers reverse flows, showing how and through whom Chinese ideas, technologies, and practices were conveyed to the West. CHCD serves as a powerful research tool for scholars studying Sino-Western cultural exchange, the history of Christianity in China, modernization, education, medicine, and transnational networks during the late imperial and Republican periods. The platform's mapping and network analysis capabilities enable new discoveries about the complex relationships between Christianity, modernization, and cultural exchange in Chinese history.
SOURCE LIST
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
TAGS
LAST MODIFIED
2026-01-16