Hsieh, Fang-Lan.

A history of Chinese Christian hymnody from its missionary origins to contemporary indigenous productions / [electronic resource] : Fang-Lan Hsieh ; with a foreword by Terry W. York. - Lewiston [N.Y.] : Edwin Mellen Press, c2009 - 1 online resource (xv, 269 p.) map, music.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-250) and index.

Early missionaries and Chinese hymnody -- Vernacular hymnals from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century -- Mandarin hymnals from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century -- Indigenization of Chinese hymns -- Chinese hymnals from the mid- to the late twentieth century -- Chinese hymnals of the twenty-first century.

0773416781 (electronic bk.) 9780773416789 (electronic bk.)


Hymns--History and criticism.--China
Church music--China.
RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy
RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations


Electronic books.

ML2951.C64 / H75 2009

264/.230951