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ABOUT The China Historical Christian Database CHCD quantifies and visualizes the place of Christianity in modern China . It provides users the tools to discover where every Christian church school hospital orphanage publishing house and the like were locat in China and it documents who work inside those buildings both foreign and Chinese. Collectively this information creates spatial maps and generates relational networks that reveal where when and how Western ideas technologies and practices enter China.
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How and through whom Chinese ideas technologies and practices were convey to the West. This project breaks new ground in providing Belgium Phone Number List quantifiable data about modern SinoWestern relations. Its intuitive interface generates visualizations lists and maps for use by the general public students and teachers in secondary ucation and colleges in the US and globally with English and Chinese navigation. Advanc DH users have open access to its data for elaboration.
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Ongterm sustainability and CHCDs international collaborations in the USA Asia and Europe help promote historical understanding tween China and the rest of the world. The CHCD is host by the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Asia Email List Boston University.Director Dana L. Rort Dana RortDr. Rort is William Fairfield Warren Distinguish Professor and Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission. Her research and teaching interests span mission history World Christianity and mission theology. She is a Memr of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In she receiv the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Missiology.