title: Hymns of Life / Large Chinese - English Bilingual Hymnal / More than 500 Church Hymns in Chinese and English / 832 pages
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zlib_text: ISSN 1092-1710, Journal of Music in China, vol. 6, no. 2, Fall 2016
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  Hymnals and Hymnody in 
  Late Qing and Early Republican China
   
  By Hongyu GonG 
  Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand
   
  I can conceive no higher ideal than to seek to lead the Chinese church to inherit the wealth of 
  hymns, psalms, and chants which already exist with all the treasures of music which the West 
  possesses. (Bonsey, 1909: 283)
  O
  n September 27, 1807, twenty-one days after his arrival in Canton, Robert Morrison 馬
  禮遜 (1782-1834), an Anglo-Scottish evangelist and the first Protestant missionary in 
  China, wrote in a letter to his brother:
   
  Solitary is my situation. There may be one, but I know not of him who loves the Lord. Today, I 
  confine myself entirely to my room. In the forenoon and also in the afternoon, I sing a hymn, read 
  a psalm, as in public worship, and sing again (Morrison, 1839: 175). 
   
  Because of the official ban on Christianity issued by the Yongzheng 雍正 emperor in 1724, 
  Morrison’