The was a significant printing press established by Jesuit fathers in Sienhsien (, Xianxian), China, in 1874.Joachim Kurtz, "Messenger of the sacred heart: Li Wenyu (1840-1911), and the Jesuit periodical press in Late Qing Shanghai", in Cynthia Joanne Brokaw; Christopher A Reed (eds) From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, Circa 1800 to 2008 (Brill, 2010), p. 82.

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 collection, with photographs of the printing establishment).British Museum Collection online, search term Sienhsien, date of search 5 December 2017. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1623964&partId=1&searchText=sienhsien&page=1

Publications published or printed by the press

Source:The following publications have entries on Worldcat.

The Imprimerie printed publications for several organisations, including the Musée Hoangho Paiho. 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 , by Séraphin Couvreur 1896 , by Seraphin Couvreur (1896; 3rd ed. 1934) 1905 , by Léon Wieger 1906 , by Léon Wieger 1909 , by Léon Wieger 1909 , by Léon Wieger 1914 , by Charles Taranzano 1919 , by A. Gasperment 1920 1920 , by A. Gasperment 1921 by Léon Wieger 1922 , by Léon Wieger 1923 , by Charles Taranzano 1924 1925 , by A. Gasperment (3rd ed.) 1925 , by A. Gasperment (2nd ed.) 1926 , by A. Gasperment 1927 , by Léon Wieger 1928 , by Émile Becker, père 1929 , by Léon Wieger 1930 , by Séraphin Couvreur (3rd ed.) 1931 1931 (Series: Le droit chinois moderne, no. 10) 1932 , by E. Licent (Series: , no. 14) Reptiles and Amphibia collected in 1932 by the staff of the Hoang ho Pai ho Museum, by P. A. Pavlov (Series , no. 23) 1936 , by H.I. Harding, Émile Licent S.J. (Series: , 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: , 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: , no. 42) 1936 New remains of Postschizotherium from s.e. Shansi, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; Emile Licent 1937 , by Henri Bernard 1937 , by F. Resch 1942 , by Georges Longhaye, (S.I.) 1948 , by A. Gasperment

See also Jesuit China missions

References