The Imprimerie de la mission catholique, Sienhsien was a significant printing press established by
Jesuit fathers in Sienhsien (pinyin:
Xianxian 献县), China, in 1874.
About the press
The Imprimerie was created to publish devotional materials and sinological works. These volumes were studied widely by the foreign communities in China, and reprinted in several editions over subsequent decades. It also printed paper money (there are four examples, signed by Eugene Kammerer, in the
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...
collection, with photographs of the printing establishment).
Publications published or printed by the press
The Imprimerie printed publications for several organisations, including the
Musée Hoangho Paiho
The Musée Hoangho Paiho () was a museum of natural history and fossils founded by the French Jesuit Émile Licent (1876–1952) in Tianjin, China, in 1914. Also known as the Beijiang Museum, it is now part of the Tianjin Natural History Museum.
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. The publisher name and address printed on many of its publications were: Mission de Sien Hsien, Race Course Road,
Tien Tsin.
[P. A. Pavlov]
Reptiles and Amphibia collected in 1932 by the staff of the Hoang ho Pai ho Museum
Tien Tsin: Mission de Sien Hsien, 1933 (Publications du Musée Hoang-ho Pai-ho, no. 23). Retrieved 25 June 2021.
* 1896 ''Dictionnaire classique de la langue chinoise'', by
Séraphin Couvreur
Séraphin Couvreur (; EFEO Chinese transcription: kóu sái fēn; 14 January 1835 – 19 November 1919) was a French Jesuit missionary to China, sinologist, and creator of the EFEO Chinese transcription. The system devised by Couvreur of the à ...
* 1896 ''
Che King, texte chinois avec une double traduction en francais et en latin'', by Seraphin Couvreur (1896; 3rd ed. 1934)
* 1905 ''Caractères.
exiques', by
Léon Wieger
Léon Wieger (born 9 July 1856 in Strasbourg, France - died 25 March 1933 in Xian County, Hebei, China), was a French Jesuit missionary, medical doctor, theologist and sinologist who worked at the Catholic Jesuit mission in Hejian, together with ...
* 1906 ''Textes philosophiques'', by Léon Wieger
* 1909 ''Folk-lore chinois moderne'', by Léon Wieger
* 1909 ''Catéchèses à l'usage des néo-missionnaires'', by Léon Wieger
* 1914 ''Vocabulaire français-chinois des sciences'', by
Charles Taranzano
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...
* 1919 ''Études de chinois. III, Dialogues : langue mandarine'', by A. Gasperment
* 1920 ''Etudes de chinois. II, mélanges: langue mandarine''
* 1920 ''Etudes de chinois. IV, récits : langue mandarine'', by A. Gasperment
* 1921 ''Chine moderne. Tome 2, Le flot montant'' by Léon Wieger
* 1922 ''Chinois écrit. Précis. : grammaire, phraséologie'', by Léon Wieger
* 1923 ''Supplément français-chinois des sciences'', by Charles Taranzano
* 1924 ''La Chine à travers les âges : Précis. Index biographique. Index bibliographique''
* 1925 ''Etudes de chinois. I, grammaire : langue mandarine'', by A. Gasperment (3rd ed.)
* 1925 ''Etudes de chinois. III, dialogues : langue mandarine'', by A. Gasperment (2nd ed.)
* 1926 ''Etudes de chinois. II, mélanges : langue mandarine'', by A. Gasperment
* 1927 ''Histoire des croyances religieuses et des opinions philosophiques en Chine depuis l'origine, jusqu'à nos jours'', by Léon Wieger
* 1928 ''Le révérend père Joseph Gonnet de la Compagnie de Jésus'', by Émile Becker, père
* 1929 ''Textes historiques : Histoire politique de la Chine depuis l'origine, jusqu'en 1929'', by Léon Wieger
* 1930 ''Les Quatre Livres'', by Séraphin Couvreur (3rd ed.)
* 1931 ''Code Foncier de la République de Chine''
* 1931 ''Code civil de la république de Chine. Livre IV: De la famille et livre V: De la succession, et lois d'application de ces deux livres'' (Series: Le droit chinois moderne, no. 10)
* 1932 ''Les Collections Néolithiques du Musée Hoang ho Pai ho de Tien Tsin'', by E. Licent (Series: Publications du Musée Hoang-ho Pai-ho, no. 14)
* ''Reptiles and Amphibia collected in 1932 by the staff of the Hoang ho Pai ho Museum'', by P. A. Pavlov (Series: Publications du Musée Hoang-ho Pai-ho, no. 23)
* 1936 ''Hoang Ho-Pai Ho. Comptes-rendus de onze années (1923–1933) de séjour et d'exploration dans le Bassin du Fleuve Jaune, du Pai Ho et des autres tributaires du Golfe du Pei-Tcheu-Ly'', by H.I. Harding, Émile Licent S.J. (Series: Publications du Musée Hoang Ho-Pai ho, no. 38)
* 1936 ''A survey of the amphibia of north China based on the collection by E. Licent S.J. in the Musée Hoangho-Paiho de Tientsin'', by Alice M Boring (Series: Publications du Musée Hoang-ho Pai-ho, no. 41)
* 1936 ''Notes on some Dytiscidae from Musée Hoang ho Pai ho, Tientsin, with descriptions of eleven new species'', by Hsiao-tʻang Fêng (Series: Publications du Musée Hoang-ho Pai-ho, no. 42)
* 1936 ''New remains of Postschizotherium from s.e. Shansi'', by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; Emile Licent
* 1937 ''Le Père Matthieu Ricci et la société chinoise de son temps (1552-1610)'', by Henri Bernard
* 1937 ''Psychologia speculativa : ad usum privatum'', by F. Resch
* 1942 ''Théorie des belles-lettres : résumé'', by Georges Longhaye, (S.I.)
* 1948 ''Etudes de chinois. V, lexique = Fen lei ci dian : mots groupés par idées'', by A. Gasperment
See also
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Jesuit China missions
References
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Book publishing companies of China
Catholic organizations
Jesuit missionaries in China
Christianity in Hebei