Annals of the Association of the Holy Childhood.
Six times a year. Only one year published.
No. 110-115 (January 1873-November 1873).
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5 (1866- 1877) EBSCO

Local access Folder [Annals Assoc. Holy Childhood]
Correspondence from Africa, India, and China. Includes information on mission finances, gifts, number of missionaries, and local news.

Beichen 北辰

Library holds only no. 3 (June 10, 1929). "Specially bound for the private library of the Father General of the Society of Jesus." The issue comes with a "loose sheet with retreat schedule" dated 1977. This issue was given to the library by Anthony E. Clark in 2025. Quotes from the accompanying donation list by Clark.

Beichen 北辰, a monthly, was published by the Institut des hautes études industrielles et commerciales 天津工商學院 in Tianjin. The ads for businesses in Tianjin in our copy would accord with that location. It appears that the name was changed to Xin Beichen 新北辰 in 1935, which bibliographical records say was published by Xin Beichen zazhi she 新北辰雜誌社 in Beiping (Beijing). In 1940, Löwenthal (p. 32) wrote that Xin Beichen was published by the National Catholic Action Centre in Beiping. It had a circulation of 4,000 copies. Löwenthal (chart 1, no. 1) lists Xin Beichen as having been founded in 1929, so he assumes a continuity between the two publications. Peng Fuying (p. 65) writes that the magazine "ceased publication following the outbreak of the anti-Japanese war." Exactly when publication ceased remains to be determined.

See Rudolf Löwenthal (Loewenthal) et al., The Religious Periodical Press in China (Beiping: Synodal Commission in China, 1940) and Peng Fuying 彭福英, "Tianzhujiao zai Hua kanwu shulüe (1872-1949)" 天主教在華刊物述略（1872-1949）, Tushu zixun xuekan 圖書資訊學刊 12.1 (2014): 55-76.

The library's copy carries an inscription on the inside front cover: 中華民國拾捌年 | 書記 張春蕙

Local access dig.pdf. [FOLDER: Le Bulletin catholique de Pékin].
Folder includes index: LE BULLETIN CATHOLIQUE DE PÉKIN PARAISSANT LE 1er DE CHAQUE MOIS ANNÉES 1913 - 1948.

Local access FOLDER {Bulletin Catholic University Peking]

Chine et Ceylan ["puis" Chine, Ceylan, Madagascar]. Lettre des missionnaires ["puis" des missionnaires français] de la Compagnie de Jésus (Province de Champagne) ["puis" Missions des Jésuites français du Nord et du Nord-Est "puis" Missions des Jésuites français du Nord et de l'Est "puis" Revue bimestrielle illustrée].
Issues for Oct. 1944-Nov. 1946 published without title by Procure des Missions de Chine, Ceylan, Madagascar.
Imprint varies: Lille : Procure des Missions, 1948-1982.
No. 47 (1920)-no. 54 (1921) called new series. "Revue bimestrielle illustrée" Bound volumes 1-17 (1898-1934); vols. 18-33 are numbered by issue, with Nos. de Guerre (1943-1946) in pocket binder. After the war, vol. 20 begins again with number 1. Our last issue is no. 215 (Dec 1987-Jan 1988).
Aout 1935 Numero Special (1933-34), vol. 17b

Publication provides many photographs, maps, statistics, and local news, including bandits, civil wars, seminaries, hospitals, native clergy, martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion (vol. 3), and other information. Some later covers have added Chinese title: Zhongguo jiaoqu 中國教區 (even though there is less Chinese material overall in later issues).

Imprint varies: Jesuites francais du nord et de l'est, Missions des Jesuites francais du nord et de l'est, etc.

Sign / [Passionist Missions]
Monthly (except Aug. and Jan.)
v. 1-Aug. 1921-Ceased with May 1982.
"A national Catholic monthly magazine."
Indexed in: Catholic periodical and literature index.
Vols. for 1921-25 issued by the Passionist Fathers; 1925- by The Passionist Missions, Inc.
Editors: 1921-July 1926, T. Noonan; Aug. 1926-July 1934, H. Purcell; Aug. 1934- T. Maguire.

The PCC Archives holds numbers of the Sign related to China and the China Mission (v.4, no.1, 1924 - v.8, no.11, 1929).
Available on microfilm from Xerox University Microfilms.
See also Passionist Historical Archives website for detailed information.

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