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institutions

• P.R. China
  • government agencies, national level
    • State Administration for Religious Affairs  国家宗教事务局
    • China Religious Culture Communication Association 中华宗教文化交流协会
    • The United Front Work Department of CPC Central Committee 中共中央统一战线工作部
    • China Anti-Cult Association 中国反邪教协会 (Chinese)
  • national religious associations
    • Buddhist Association of China 中国佛教协会
    • Chinese Taoist Association 中国道教协会网
    • Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association 中国天主教爱国会
    • Islamic Association of China 中国伊斯兰教协会
    • Three Self Patriotic Movement/ China Christian Council
  • government agencies, provincial and local level
    • Shandong Province Commission for Ethnic Affairs & Religious Bureau 山东民族事务委员会宗教事务局 (Chinese)
  • academic, on religion (and ethics) in general
    • The Beijing Centre for Chinese Studies  (Beijing)
    • Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of World Religions (中国社会科学院世界宗教研究所) (Beijing)
    • 中国人民大学佛教与宗教学理论研究所 Institute for Studies of Buddhism and Religious Theory, People's University (English) (Chinese) (Beijing)
    • Research Centre for Ethics and Religion, Tsinghua University 清华大学道德与宗教研究中心 (Beijing)
    • Center of Religion and Society Studies Shanghai University 上海大学宗教与社会研究中心 (Shanghai)
    • Sichuan University Institute of Religious Studies 四川大学道教与宗教文化研究所 (Chengdu)
      
  • academic, on Christianity
    • 中国人民大学基督教文化研究所 Institute of Christian Culture Studies, People's University (Chinese) (Beijing)
    • 浙江大学基督教与跨文化研究中心 (The Key Institute of Christianity and Cross-Cultural Studies, ICCS)
  • academic, on other religions
    • Center of Jewish Studies, Academy of Social Sciences (Shanghai) 上海犹太研究中心 (English) (Chinese)
  • other (including Church related)
    • 天主教与文化研究所 (Beijing)
    • Jinde Foundation 信德网络 (Shijiazhuang) (English) (Chinese)

 

• Taiwan/ Hong Kong/ Macau

• academic and scholarly
  • Centre for Sino-Christian Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University 香港浸會大學中華基督宗教研究中心 (Hong Kong)
  • Centre for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society, Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong 宗教與中國社會研究中 崇基學院香港中文大學 (Hong Kong)
    
  • Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture 基督教中國宗教文化研究社 (Hong Kong)
  • Institute of Sino-Christian Studies (Hong Kong)
  • Holy Spirit Study Centre (Hong Kong)
  • Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (宗教與中國社會研究中心) (Hong Kong)
  • French Centre for Research on Contemporary China  法國現代中國研究中心 (Hong Kong and Taipei)
  • Fu Jen Catholic University Department of Religious Studies 輔仁大學宗教系所 (Taipei)
  • Ricci Institute  利氏學社 (Taipei)
  • Macau Ricci Institute/ Instituto Ricci de Macau 澳門利氏學社

 

• missionary and Church-related
  • China Graduate School of Theology (中國神學研究院) (Hong Kong)
  • China Ministries International (中国福音会) (Taipei)

 

• Japan
  • Nanzan Institute For Religion and Culture  (Nagoya)
  • Oriens Institute for Religious Research (Tokyo)

• Rest of Asia
  • academic and scholarly
  • missionary and Church-sponsored
    • Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia 亚洲基督教研究中心 Trinity Theological College(Singapore)
  • other

• U.S.A.

• academic and scholarly
  • Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History 利瑪竇中西文化歷史研究所 (San Francisco)
• missionary and Church-sponsored
  • Great Commission Centre International 大使命中心 (California)
  • U.S. Catholic China Bureau

• Europe
  • scholarly and academic
    • China-Zentrum (Sankt Augustin, Germany)
    • Monumenta Serica (Sankt Augustin, Germany)
    •  Centre for the Study of Christianity in China (Oxford, United Kingdom) moved to Centre for Theology, religion & culture (King's college London)
    • department of Chinese studies, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
    • Documentatiecentrum Chinees Recht (= Documentation Centre Chinese Law), Catholic University Leuven, with interesting primary materials on religious freedom, all translated into Dutch.
  • missionary and Church-sponsored
    • Relais France Chine (Missions Etrangères de Paris)
      法中联络社 (Paris, France)
    • Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland, China-Infostelle (Hamburg, Germany)

journals and news websites

• general

  Congressional-Executive Commission on China (U.S.A.)

• missionary and Church-related
  • 中文
    • 天风 ("Heavenly Wind")
      • index years 1947 to 1963 (by Michael Poon)
    • 天主教在线
    • 大使雙月刊 (U.S.A.) See also: Great Commission News
• English
  • Amity News Service (Hong Kong)
  • Asianews (Italy)
  • China Church Quarterly (U.S.A.)
  • Great Commission News (U.S.A.) See also: 大使命雙月刊
  • UCANews ("Union of Catholic Asian News")
• religion in China
  • Chinese state-controlled
    • Buddhism on-line (佛教在线) (Chinese)
    • China Religion (中国宗教网)
    • China Ethnic Religion Net (中国民族宗教网) supplement to China Ethnic News (中国民族报)
    • Ethnic Groups and Religions in Beijing (北京的民族与宗教) Published by the Beijing Muncipal Commission of Ethnic Affairs (Chinese)
  • other
    • Confucius 2000
    • Monitor China (中国宗教观察网) includes "Chinese Law and Religion Monitor journal"

 

databases

• on-line archives
  • Archives on the History of Christianity in China includes the Christianity in Contemporary China Clippings Database 當代中國基督教發展剪報數據庫 (Hong Kong, Baptist University)
  • China Records Project, Yale University Divinity School Library (U.S.A.)
  • Archives Vincent Lebbe (雷鸣远) (Belgium)
  • Miner Searle Bates (1897-1978) Papers (Yale University, U.S.A.)
  • The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China (Harvard University, U.S.A.) Over 1000 photos of Muslims and Christian missionaries working among them in Western China in the 1920s and 1930s.

• searchable texts and indices
  • references to Christianity in contemporary Chinese local gazetteers 中國新方誌中的基督宗教資料 (hosted by Holy Spirit Seminary College, Hong Kong)
  • Ricci 21st Century Roundtable Database

• personal websites
  • Barend ter Haar (teaches Chinese history and religion at Leiden University, Netherlands)