This entire collection was compiled over several decades of field work in China, where Prof. Clark gathered a large number of images and documents in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Rome, Paris, Krakow, as well as from a variety of rare book dealers within the United States, the UK, continental Europe, and Asia.

The collection includes hundreds of materials in English, Chinese, Classical Chinese, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, and a variety of other European languages. Many of the books have been inscribed by the author or are autographed. A voracious collector, Professor Clark sought after first editions, rare books, ephemera, and otherwise often-overlooked materials and objects, and recognized that these are valuable tools for the scholar of the Catholic Church in China.

Materials within the Collection span from the missionary era in China from its inception to materials that continue into the contemporary era, up to this present day, late 2016. A large body of the collection is centered on China’s canonized Catholic saints, as well as the Boxer Uprising, the turbulence surrounding the events of 1900, and dilates on religious orders and their historic presence in China (including, for example, Franciscans, Jesuits, Dominicans, MEP, and PIME, to name a few). In this regard the Collection greatly enriches the current holdings of the Ricci Institute.

The assemblage of historical images related to the history of Christianity in China, within this greater collection, is unique. More than a dozen archival boxes include images both original and reproduced, many of the latter of which have been under threat, have already disappeared, or have dropped out of scholarly view. In short, in this remarkable collection scholars will likely see images that they have never before seen. Similarly the collection of Professor Clark’s research papers, housed in around 40 archival boxes organized by chronology, order, and diocese, is singular in its scope and breadth regarding the Catholic Church in China, as these items were collected during his research trips that occurred annually and spanned the globe. This, too is a diverse collection of materials, including those found in archives—some of which have now closed—or made fleeting internet appearances, were downloaded and printed, which are now too no longer available in their original source. In addition to this are approximately 30 archival boxes containing Professor Clarks personal papers and publication materials. In total the Collection contains approximately 12,000 pages of documents.

Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D., is the Lindaman Endowed Chair and Professor of History at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. The Ricci Institute currently holds one of the world’s most focused collections of materials and scholarship on the Catholic Church in China, and the addition of this collection assists in filling several areas of current lacunae. Prof. Clark has loaned this vast collection of research materials to the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco for the advancement of scholarship on the history of Catholic Christianity in China.

ANTHONY E. CLARK COLLECTION RESEARCH MATERIALS/BOOKS IN ARCHIVAL BOXES

COLLECTION OVERVIEW

Focus: History of Christianity in China, Late-Qing and Republican Era, Boxer Uprising

Collection Creator: Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D.

Primary Organizer: Hannah H. Tweet

Arrangement:
This collection is arranged into 10 series, with a total of 38 boxes. There are multiple boxes in each series and they are distinguished by alphabetical letters, i.e.: 001a, 001b, 001c, etc. Series 001, 002, and 005 each focus on a different missionary order in China – the Society of Jesus, the Order of Friars Minor, and the Congregation of the Mission, respectively. Series 004 contains only audio-visual digital files; though other digital files are located throughout the collection. Both series 006 and series 007 contain information regarding one particular person, Fr. Charles McCarthy, SJ, and Alphonse Favier, CM, respectively. The rest of the collection is divided into three different series of “varia,” though series 008 emphasizes research materials, and series 009 emphasizes information organized by religious order or diocese. Series 010 has no emphasis, but each box has its own described category.
Languages: English, Chinese, French

Scope and Contents of the Materials
The contents of this collection represent the collected materials and personal research notes of Professor Anthony E. Clark; all materials center on the history of Christianity in China, especially Roman Catholic missions during the late-imperial era (ca. 1700-1912). Some materials do, however, extend into the contemporary era, and many documents remain sensitive given China’s present political situation under Communist rule. In addition to the various documents and material objects preserved and catalogued, this collection includes a substantial amount of historical and current photographs, prints, and reproduced images related to Catholic Christianity in China. Also, represented in this collection are a number of rare books on this topic, several of which have been inscribed by the authors. [The provenance of the materials in this collection is sometimes recorded; many of the materials are reproduced from archives around the world, as noted.]

Administrative Information
Series Listing

Series 001: SJ (Society of Jesus)
Series 002: OFM (Order of Friars Minor)
Series 003: Post-Imperial/Modern China
Series 004: Audio-Visual Digital Files
Series 005: CM (Congregation of the Mission)
Series 006: Fr. Charles McCarthy, SJ
Series 007: Alphonse Favier, CM
Series 008: Church in China Varia – Research Materials
Series 009: Catholic Church in China Varia, by Order/Diocese
Series 010: Church in China Varia

Box and Folder Listing

Begins on page 1

ANTHONY E. CLARK COLLECTION
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA ARCHIVE CATALOG
(Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D.)

Table of Contents
Series 001: SJ (Society of Jesus)………………………......……1
Series 002: OFM (Order of Friars Minor)…………………………………… 10
Series 003: Post-Imperial/Modern China …………………………………… 19
Series 004: Audio-Visual Digital Files…………………………….. 24
Series 005: CM (Congregation of the Mission)…………………………… 28
Series 006: Fr. Charles McCarthy, SJ………………………………… 38
Series 007: Alphonse Favier, CM……………………………………….... 42
Series 008: Church in China Varia – Research Materials…………………………………... 46
Series 009: Catholic Church in China Varia, by Order/Diocese …………………………... 54
Series 010: Church in China Varia…………………………………………. 64
Bibliography of Western Language Books ……………………………… 74

The riots : an account -- The riots : their causes -- The riots : their remedies -- Appendix : Hunan, a record of a six weeks' trip.

This text available online at Hathi Trust.

The Christian mission in China in the Verbiest era : some aspects of the missionary approach / Noël Golvers (ed.).
Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Preface / Jeroom Heyndrickx -- Introduction / Noël Golvers -- Ferdinand Verbiest's Qiongli xue 窮理學 (1683 ) / Adrian Dudink and Nicolas Standaert -- Verbiest's introduction of Aristoteles Latinus (Coimbra) in China: new Western evidence / Noël Golvers -- Explaining the sacrament of penance in seventeenth-century China: an essay of Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688) / John W. Witek -- The reaction of scholars to the work of Ferdinand Verbiest during the Kangxi-Qianlong reign / Xu Haisong 徐海松 -- The role of the directorate of astronomy in the Catholic mission during the Qing period / Han Qi 韓琦 -- Some aspects of the missionary approach of Francois de Rougemont in Changshu, Jiangnan (1661-1676) / Noël Golvers.

Publishers note-- In this volume, an effort has been made to extend our research to hitherto less developed aspects of the life and work of Ferdinand Verbiest (°1623-+1688). Two of the five papers collected here concern his involvement in the translation of the Latin commentaries on Aristotle published in Coimbra, which had been begun by Furtado, Aleni and others, and which he continued and completed until its 'official' presentation to the emperor in 1683. The contents of this voluminous work, entitled Qiongli xue are analysed by N. Standaert & A. Dudink (Leuven) on the basis of an (incomplete) copy of the manuscript, whereas N. Golvers (Leuven) describes its growth process out of a series of references in 'Western' sources; again each approach complements the other, and the flaws of one type of source are balanced by the virtues of the other. Verbiest's purely pastoral work is represented by this treatise 'on the sacrament of penance' (Goaojie yuanyi [sic], i.e. Gaojie yuanyi), which is analysed in depth by J.W. Witek (Washington DC). On the other hand there is Verbiest's relation to the calendar problem and the Astronomical Bureau (Qintianjian), so often studied without ever exhausting the subject; his work is appropriately described in terms of the 'history of science', as a key moment in the transmission of Western astronomical knowledge to the Far East. In his paper, however, Xu Haisong (Hangzhou) investigates the reception of Verbiest's learning in the milieu of the traditional Bureau, mainly on the basis of Chinese primary sources. The presence of more specific Christian elements in the same Bureau can be pointed out during the seventeenth and eighteenth century, when it even exerts some influence on contemporary Chinese Christianity, in such dossiers as the Rites Controversy. (Han Qi, Beijing). But the Jesuit mission was far more than the mission of Beijing. The scene beyond the capital is present in this issue in a description of the missionary approach applied in Suzhou Prefecture (Jiangnan Province) by Franciscus de Rougemont (°1624-+1676) - a former fellow of F. Verbiest in the Flemish Jesuit colleges, and always in contact with him in China as well. Here again Western documents are the almost exclusive sources, illustrating many aspects of the Jesuit presence in the Chinese interior.

This handbook gives particulars for each mission station, with detailed maps, statistics, personnel lists, location of churches and chapels, schools, colleges, and hospitals established, and financial information. This photocopy was made from the Day Missions Library of Yale University. (hardcopy not on OCLC; only American Theological Library Association, 1995. ATLA monograph preservation program ; ATLA film 1995-0137. Day missions monographs on microfilm ; set 1 listed)
Local access. [Handbook China-1914.pdf]

Lettres édifiantes et curieuses de Chine : 1702-1776 / par des missionnaires jésuites ; chronologie, introd., notices et notes par Isabelle et Jean-Louis Vissière.
Bibliography: p. [43]-46.

Contents: Introduction : China, the missionary project, and the career of Hazel Todd -- From Yangzhou to Hunan : the early years, 1920-1930 -- Reassignment to Anhui : the middle years, 1930-1937 -- On the front lines in Anhui : the final years, 1938-1941.

Features a small number of black-and-white in-text photographs and map (p.2)

The interpretation of Tang Christianity in the Late Ming China mission : Manuel Dias Jr.'s correct explanation of the Tang "Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching" (1644) / by Matteo Nicolini-Zani.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
English text, partially translated from the Chinese.

Cover illustration: Manuel Dias Jr., Tang jingjiao beisong zhengquan 唐景教碑頌正詮 [Correct Explanation of the Tang Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching] (Wulin [Hangzhou]: Tianzhutang, 1644), copy Bodleian Library Sinica 2643, frontispiece (unnumbered folio), courtesy of The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

The book contains the first annotated English translation of the Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (1644) by the Jesuit Manuel Dias Jr. and other late Ming Chinese Christian sources interpreting the “venerable ancestor” of the Jesuit mission, namely, the mission of the Church of the East in Tang China.
Based on this documentation, the book reconstructs the process of “appropriation” by Jesuit missionaries and their Chinese converts of ancient traces of Christianity that were discovered in China in the first half of the seventeenth century, such as the Xi’an stele (781) and other Christian relics.

Local access dig.pdf. [Nicolini-Zani-Tang Christianity.pdf]

Contents
Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
List of Figures xiii
Introduction
1 A Venerable Ancestor: The Appropriation of Tang Christianity by Jesuit Missionaries and Chinese Converts 
1 The Context: The Tang Christian Stele and Its Interpretations 
2 The Precious Stele: A Foundation Stone for the Seventeenth-Century China Mission 
3 The Holy Crosses: The Xi’an Stone Confirmed by Other Ancient
Traces of Christianity in China 
2 A Multi-Level Commentary: The Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” by Manuel Dias Jr. 
1 Between Interpretation, Instruction, and Apology: The Contents 
2 A Complex Work with a Long Life: The Structure, Editions, and Reprints 
3 The Man behind the Text: The Author 

Annotated Translation
Preliminary Note on the Translation “Correct Explanation of the Tang Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (Tang jingjiao beisong zhengquan 唐景教碑頌正詮) by Manuel Dias Jr., s.j. 
Preface 
《景教流行中國碑頌并序》[Ancient Traces of the Heavenly Studies] 

Correct Explanation of the Stele Eulogy on the Diffusion of the Luminous Teaching in China 

Appendix 1: “After Reading the Stele Inscription of the Luminous Teaching” (Du jingjiao beishu hou 讀景教碑書後, 1625) By Li Zhizao 李之藻
Appendix 2: “Stele Inscription for the Church of the Luminous Teaching” ( Jingjiaotang beiji 景教堂碑記, between 1625 and 1627) By Xu Guangqi 徐光啟 
Appendix 3: “A Clarification about an Iron Cross” (Tie shizi zhu 鐵十字 著, 1627) By Xu Guangqi 徐光啟
Appendix 4: “Preface to the Stele with a Cross Unearthed in Wurong” (Wurong chudi shizijia beixu 武榮出地十字架碑序, 1633) By Zhang Geng 張賡
Appendix 5: “A Poem in Honor of Giulio Aleni, s.j.” (Late Ming dynasty) By Ke Xianshi 柯憲世
Appendix 6: “Outline of the Orthodox Way of the Lord of Heaven” (Tianzhu zhengdao jielüe 天主正道解略, 1644) 
Appendix 7: “A Study of the Luminous Teaching” ( Jingjiao kao 景教考, ca. 1644) By Qian Qianyi 錢謙益
Bibliography 
Index 

The Luminous Way to the East : texts and history of the first encounter of Christianity with China /  Matteo Nicolini-Zani ; translated by William Skudlarek.

Translated from the Italian: Via radiosa per l'Oriente.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-382) and index.

PART I: A History of Encounters
1.“The Luminous Breeze Blew Eastward”: The Church of the East from Persia to China. - The Missionary Dynamism of the Church of the East -- Christian Archaeological Traces in Asia in the First Millennium -- Christian Literature in the Languages of Central Asia -- The Meeting of Religions on the Silk Road.

2. “The Brilliant Teaching Turned toward the Tang Empire”: The Christian Presence in China between 635 and 845 --Chinese Designations of Tang Christianity -- A Chronicle of the Events Attested by the Sources -- The Composition and Structure of Christian Communities -- The Geographical Location of Christian Monasteries

3. “The Scriptures Were Translated”: The First Christian Texts in Chinese -- The 781 Xi’an Stele: A Monument “Celebrating the Eminent and Meritorious Events” -- The 815 Luoyang Pillar: A Memorial Stone “Granting the Luminous Blessings” -- The “Dunhuang” Manuscripts: A Summary of Research -- The Production and Literary Form of the Texts -- The Content of the Texts.

PART II: The Texts in Translation
Notes on Sources -- The Reference Editions of the Translated Texts -- The Transcriptions of Foreign Names
Text A:
Stele of the Diffusion of the Luminous Teaching of Da Qin in China (Da Qin jingjiao liuxing Zhongguo bei 大秦景教流行中國碑)
Text B:
1. Hymn in Praise of the Salvation Achieved through the Three Majesties of the Luminous Teaching (Jingjiao sanwei mengdu
zan 景教三威蒙度讚)
2. Book of the Honored (Zunjing 尊經)
Text C:
Discourse on the One God (Yishen lun 一神論)
I. Discourse on the One Godhead (Yitian lun diyi 一天論第一)
II. Metaphorical Teaching (Yu di'er 喻第二)
III. Discourse of the Honored One of the Universe on Almsgiving (Shizun bushi lun disan 世尊布施論第三)
Text D:
Book of the Lord Messiah (Xuting mishisuo jing 序聽迷詩所經)
Text E:
Book on Profound and Mysterious Blessedness (Zhixuan anle jing 志玄安樂經)
Text F:
Book of the Luminous Teaching of Da Qin on Revealing the Origin and Reaching the Foundation (*Da Qin jingjiao xuanyuan zhiben jing 大秦景教宣元至本經)

"The Missionary Dynamism of the Church of the East It would be an attractive undertaking for the historian to be able to follow in the footsteps of those heralds of the Gospel, who went forth from Antioch with firmness and tenacity in those early days making their way to the East . . . building new centers of Christian irradiation, creating communities and spreading the doctrine of Jesus everywhere. The interest would certainly grow if we were familiar with the challenges faced by these first evangelizers on their way to the Far East. Gaining that knowledge, however, is no easy task. Christ's teaching had to cover immense distances on its road from Antioch towards the East. . . . The details of this diffusion, however, remain obscure. There are no Acts of the Apostles, no Letters of Saint Paul, no contemporary or near-contemporary documents that might tell us how and when Christianity from the region of the Euphrates and the Tigris crossed over the mountainous regions of the Orient, how through Media and Parthia it went south to Herat and Segestan, and how it penetrated eastward, crossing the Margiana (Merv), into the region of the Oxus and the Jaxartes, and finally how it entered today's Russian province of Semireč'e, then Turfan, and then further south into the heart of China"-- Provided by publisher.

Local access dig.pdf. [Nicolini-Zan-The luminous way to the East.pdf]

Title in red and black.
This work was to consist of three volumes. The 2d vol, printed complete Madrid 1679, is supposed to have been suppressed by the Spanish inquisition. A copy without t.p., containing p. 1-668, is described in the Bibliotheca grenvilliana, p. 484. Another copy, in the same incomplete condition, quoted by Quaritch under no 61 of his Rough list no. 24, is now in the possession of H. Cordier. The 3d vol. was never published. cf. Cordier, Bibliotheca sinica, 2d ed., Paris, 1904; and Medina, Bibl. hisp. americana.

Tratado I. Del origen, nombre, sitio, grandezas, riquezas, y singularidades de la gran China.--tratado II. Del modo, y disposicion del govierno del Chino, de sus sectas, y de las cosas mas memorables de su historia.--tratado III. Escriuense algunas sentencias politicas, y morales del filosofo Kung Fu Zu.--tratado IV. Del libro Ming, Sin, Pao, Kien, esto es, Espejo prècioso del alma.--tratado V. De la secta literaria.--tratado VI. De los viages, y navegaciones, que el autor deste libro ha hecho.--tratado VII. Qvaesita missionariorvm Chinae, sev Sinarvm Sacrae congregationi de propaganda fide exhibita. Cvm responsis ad ea: decreto eiusdem Sacrae congregationis approbatis.

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