Bibliotheca Sinica Christiana : annotated catalog of Divine Word Missionaries' (S.V.D.) publications in Shandong (1882-1950) / compiled by Roman Malek, S.V.D ; edited by Barbara Hoster, Dirk Kuhlmann, Zbigniew Wesołowski, S.V.D.

Sankt Augustin : Institut Monumenta Serica ; Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Monumenta serica monograph series, 0179-261X ; LXXIII

"The present work is a comprehensive catalog of publications that were produced and printed by the Divine Word Missionaries (Societas Verbi Divini, S.V.D.) in Shandong province, China. It was compiled by the late Prof. Dr. Roman Malek, S.V.D. (1951-2019), an internationally renowned expert for the history of Christianity in China and former director and editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute (MSI) in Sankt Augustin, Germany. The catalog comprises nearly 400 entries, arranged in alphabetical order according to the original titles, in Chinese, German or Latin, and occasionally in English. Each entry provides detailed bibliographical information, excerpts from the book information included in the contemporary editions of the Catalogus Librorum of the S.V.D. Mission Press, a short explanation in English on the respective title and a Table of Contents. The S.V.D. publications cover a broad range of fields, including apologetic and catechetical material, e.g., reprints of works of the old China mission, books for teaching the faith and prayer books; biblical materials, i.e., translations from and works on the Bible; educational material, such as textbooks for the schools run by the S.V.D. in Shandong; dictionaries and grammars for Chinese, German and Latin; Catholic periodicals; books on Chinese culture; hymn books; and finally, materials for evangelization (posters, pictures, etc.). The Bibliotheca Sinica Christiana makes an important contribution to documenting the printing activities of a specific Catholic missionary society, the S.V.D., in China in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. It aims at stimulating further research into the S.V.D. China mission and into the history of religious printing in the modern era in China at large"--  Provided by publisher.

Hua-De zidian 華德字典 / Georg M. Stenz (Xue Tianzi 薛田資, 1869–1928)

Based on Josef Stangier's (Shang Geli 商格理, 1872–1953) Chinesisch-deutsches Taschen-Wörterbuch [Hua-De zidian 華德字典] (1914), which in turn was based on Debesse's Chinese-French dictionary and other missionary lexicographical resources, as well as the much-used Chinese rhyme book Wufang yuanyin 五方元音. Stangier's dictionary had been arranged in alphabetical order according to the transcription of the Chinese characters. This dictionary changed the arrangement to Chinese radical-and-stroke order and augmented the lemmata list with scientific terms.

See Li Xuetao 李雪濤, “Ershi shiji shang banye Shengyan hui (SVD) zai Shandong bianzuan de san bu Han-De cidian” 20世紀上半葉聖言會 (SVD)在山東編纂的三部漢德詞典, Macao, Wenhua zazhi 文化雜誌, no. 77 (2010): 29-39 and Anthony Hu, “Neo-Missionaries in Republican China: A Study of Selected Training Materials Mostly in Bilingual Format for the Divine Word Missionaries in Shandong,” Religions & Christianity in Today’s China 13, no. 3 (2023): 27-58.