Research Guides: HIST 347: Quakers in East Asia (HC) [Fall 2014]: Secondary Sources

Publications about Quakers in China

Adcock, Cynthia, Revolutionary Faithfulness: The Quaker Search for a Peaceable Kingdom in China, 1939-1951
Dissertation presented to Bryn Mawr College, 1974
Cadbury, William Warder and Mary Hoxie Jones, At the Point of a Lancet: One Hundred Years of the Canton Hospital, 1835-1935
Cooley, James C. Jr., "The American Quaker Presence in Late Nineteenth Century China" in The Influence of Quaker Women on American History
DeVol, Charles E., Fruit that remains: The story of the Friends Mission in China and Taiwan
Hood, George A., Neither Bang Nor Whimper : The End of a Missionary Era in China
Presbyterian Church in Singapore in association with the Friends of the Church in
China, 1991
Kirkby, Joanna, The Two Oceans ; the Dark and the Light
Wood, Patrick, Time Will Make Things Clear : the Story of Stephen Yang, Chinese Quaker

American Friends Board of Foreign Missions, Annual reports, publications, 1895-1923
Provides potential for comparative studies
Foreign Missionary Association of Friends of Philadelphia Annual Report 1884-1923
The Friend, Philadelphia, 1828 – 1955
Orthodox Quaker weekly newspaper including reports from Asia
Friends' intelligencer. Philadelphia, 1853 – 1955
Hicksite Quaker weekly newspaper including reports from Asia
Friends Missionary Advocate, 1885 - present
Friends Oriental News
Published quarterly in the interest of American Friends Missions in Asia
Kawahara, Tetsuko, Friends Mission in Japan 1885-1947
A chronological history of the Friends mission in Japan. Useful bibliography

Brownstein, Michael C., "Our Man in Mito: Yoshioka Kwansen and the First Quaker Missionaries in Japan," Japan Christian Quarterly, Vol. 53 (Winter 1986), 33-41, and (Spring 1987), 83-91
Elkinton, David Cope, The Elkintons and Inazo Nitobe
Fifty Years of Quakerism in Japan, Seiju Hirakawa, ed. Tokyo: Japan Yearly Meeting, 1937
Japanese text with an English introduction
Friends in the Delaware Valley: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1681-1981
The chapter by Elizabeth Gray Vining, "The Yearly Meeting and Japan" relates directly to the Quaker Collection manuscripts holdings.
Haines, M.M., A Brief History of the Friends' Mission in Japan: From 1885 to 1905
History of Friends Girls School, 1887-1937, Toki Tomiyama, ed. Tokyo: Friends Girls School, 1937
Text in Japanese and preface in English
Jones, Esther B., Much love to all : the letters and diary of Esther Alsop Balderston
Kinuhata, Hitomi, Hugh Borton : his role in American-Japanese relations
Hugh Borton was Haverford College President, 1957-1967, and Haverford Class of 1926.
Nicholson, Herbert V., Comfort All Who Mourn: The Life Story of Herbert and Madeline Nicholson
Otsu, Mitso, An invitation to the history of Friends School’s first 50 years
Sharpless, Edith, Quakerism in Japan: A Brief Account of the Origins and Development of the Religious Society of Friends in Japan
Toda, Tetsuka, From Pastoral to Non-Pastoral : Quaker Experience in Japan
Vining, Elizabeth Gray, Windows for the Crown Prince