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Wu Yaozong Quanji Diyijuan: Zaoqi sixiang 1909-1931 (The Collected Works of Y. T. Wu Volume 1: Early Thoughts 1909-1931), edited by Fuktsang Ying. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2015, xliv + 635 pp. HK$110 (paperback). ISBN: 9789629967659; Wu Yaozong Quanji Dierjuan shangce he xiace: Jiuyiba zhi taipingyang zhanzheng qianxi 1932-1941 (The Collected Works of Y. T. Wu Volume 2, Books 1 and 2: From Mukden Incident to the Eve of the Pacific War 1932-1941), edited by Fuk-tsang Ying. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2017, lxii + 648 pp. (book 1), x + 422 pp. (book 2). HK$230 (paperback). ISBN: 9789629966706.
Y. T. Wu (Wu Yaozong, ... , 1893-1979) was one of the most important Chinese Christian leaders in the twentieth century, and certainly the most controversial. On the basis of these two volumes of The Collected Works of Y. T. Wu, we now know he was also one of the last century's most prolific Christian authors. Wu was an inveterate diarist, essayist, and writer, and we get a thorough view of his writings and his thinking in these volumes. Scholars are greatly indebted to Prof. Ying Fuk-tsang, Director of the Chung Chi Divinity School of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, for putting this collection together and meticulously editing it for publication. The Collected Works of Y. T. Wu should be in every library, and on the shelf of every scholar who wants a serious understanding of Christianity in 20th-century China.
The Collected Works of Y. T. Wu puts together Wu's published and unpublished works in Chinese and English. Ying visited archives in Shanghai, Beijing, and the United States over a period of many years to get materials. For the collected works as a whole, there will be more than 500 pieces of Wu's writing, 1.5 million Chinese characters, and 180,000 English words (Vol. 1, p. xxvii). The writings are mainly from published sources, but unpublished and hard-to-get materials were provided by Wu Zongsu, the son of Y. T. Wu. He also provided funding for publication project and adds a preface.
Ying, as editor in chief, had an expert editorial committee, and several advisors with whom he consulted. There are short prefaces to the series and substantial...