Period:Unknown Production date:1938 (date on note)
Materials:paper
Technique:printed
Dimensions:Height: 79 millimetres Width: 143 millimetres
Description:
Banknote. Obverse and reverse printed in dark green and pink, with some red stamps, and one purple stamp. (whole)
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![图片[1]-banknote BM-2002-1015.5-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00165557_001.jpg)
Comments:Information from Dr Gary Tiedemann (History Dept, SOAS): ‘The origins of this [the Sienhsien] Mission go back to 1856, when the Vicariate Apostolic of Southeast Zhili was established and assigned to French Jesuits. In 1863 the central mission station, with episcopal residence, was established in the small (predominantly) Christian village of Zhangjiazhuang, just outside the county seat of Xianxian. From these small beginnings a major mission complex developed, with seminary, schools, hospital and orphanages. A major printing operation was established there quite early and many French language texts were printed at Xianxian. It probably was the most important Catholic printing operation outside of Shanghai. Although other bits of the old vicariate apostolic of Southeast Zhili were transferred to Jesuits from other nations and to Chinese secular clergy, the ‘Sienhsien’ mission remained with French Jesuits to the end of the missionary era. … The news that banknotes were printed at Xianxian is rather intriguing. Was it for a Japanese puppet administration or for guerilla forces? Or was it just before the Japanese reached that part of Hebei province? … Eugene Kammerer was the rector of the ‘Scolasticat’ of Zhangjiazhuang in the Sienhsien misson.’For further research (from curator’s notes):Try archives in Beijing municipal library; for Eugene Kammerer try Paris Jesuit archives (Jesuit archives in Paris and Champagne merged, at Chantilly, Vanves); diplomatic archives (Ministry of Foreign Affairs – for French Embassy in Beijing, consul at Shanghai) in Nantes. P. (P=Pere) Orly(?) possibly a lay brother (not in records); see “Lishi yanjiu” for Xianxian fortifications during Boxer Rebellion.
Materials:paper
Technique:printed
Dimensions:Height: 79 millimetres Width: 143 millimetres
Description:
Banknote. Obverse and reverse printed in dark green and pink, with some red stamps, and one purple stamp. (whole)
IMG
Comments:Information from Dr Gary Tiedemann (History Dept, SOAS): ‘The origins of this [the Sienhsien] Mission go back to 1856, when the Vicariate Apostolic of Southeast Zhili was established and assigned to French Jesuits. In 1863 the central mission station, with episcopal residence, was established in the small (predominantly) Christian village of Zhangjiazhuang, just outside the county seat of Xianxian. From these small beginnings a major mission complex developed, with seminary, schools, hospital and orphanages. A major printing operation was established there quite early and many French language texts were printed at Xianxian. It probably was the most important Catholic printing operation outside of Shanghai. Although other bits of the old vicariate apostolic of Southeast Zhili were transferred to Jesuits from other nations and to Chinese secular clergy, the ‘Sienhsien’ mission remained with French Jesuits to the end of the missionary era. … The news that banknotes were printed at Xianxian is rather intriguing. Was it for a Japanese puppet administration or for guerilla forces? Or was it just before the Japanese reached that part of Hebei province? … Eugene Kammerer was the rector of the ‘Scolasticat’ of Zhangjiazhuang in the Sienhsien misson.’For further research (from curator’s notes):Try archives in Beijing municipal library; for Eugene Kammerer try Paris Jesuit archives (Jesuit archives in Paris and Champagne merged, at Chantilly, Vanves); diplomatic archives (Ministry of Foreign Affairs – for French Embassy in Beijing, consul at Shanghai) in Nantes. P. (P=Pere) Orly(?) possibly a lay brother (not in records); see “Lishi yanjiu” for Xianxian fortifications during Boxer Rebellion.
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