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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch

RASHKB and author

Vol. 28 (1988)

ISSN 1991-7295

David Faure

203

THE ARCHIVES OF THE BASEL MISSION

In June 1988, I visited the Archives of the Basel Mission located in the Mission House at 21 Missionsstrasse, CH 4003 Basel, Switzerland. This archive is rich in material on the Hakka communities in Kwangtung Province. These archives are not as well known as some other mission collections. The earlier records are written in the old German script and present difficulties to those who have not been trained in reading it. Along with missionary matters, the correspondence from China also contains much material of anthropological, sociological and historical interest. In my visit my chief interest was to gather data on the work of the mission in the San On and Tung Kun Districts of Kwangtung, particularly their school and seminary at Li Long. I did not have time to transcribe items of more general interest, but I did copy the following. My translation was checked and corrected by Rev. Dr. Richard Deutsch, a close friend and a former colleague in the Theological Division of the Chinese University, Hong Kong, who is now on the staff of the Mission House.

A Revolutionary Plot at Canton

A-1.29

No. 51, 28 November 1895, Rev. Mr. Kircher, Hong Kong.

“A few weeks ago, a Christian in the Berlin Mission House at Canton told the missionaries to seek safety as a revolution would break out in

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch RASHKB and author Vol. 28 (1988) ISSN 1991-7295 David Faure 203 THE ARCHIVES OF THE BASEL MISSION In June 1988, I visited the Archives of the Basel Mission located in the Mission House at 21 Missionsstrasse, CH 4003 Basel, Switzerland. This archive is rich in material on the Hakka communities in Kwangtung Province. These archives are not as well known as some other mission collections. The earlier records are written in the old German script and present difficulties to those who have not been trained in reading it. Along with missionary matters, the correspondence from China also contains much material of anthropological, sociological and historical interest. In my visit my chief interest was to gather data on the work of the mission in the San On and Tung Kun Districts of Kwangtung, particularly their school and seminary at Li Long. I did not have time to transcribe items of more general interest, but I did copy the following. My translation was checked and corrected by Rev. Dr. Richard Deutsch, a close friend and a former colleague in the Theological Division of the Chinese University, Hong Kong, who is now on the staff of the Mission House. A Revolutionary Plot at Canton A-1.29 No. 51, 28 November 1895, Rev. Mr. Kircher, Hong Kong. “A few weeks ago, a Christian in the Berlin Mission House at Canton told the missionaries to seek safety as a revolution would break out in

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