The China Review

The journal was edited in its initial years by Nicholas Belfeld Dennys, editor of the China Mail, a Hong Kong newspaper.

In the first volume, Dennys stated that the review would include original papers on "the Arts and Sciences, Ethnology, Folklore, Geography, History, Literature, Mythology, Manners and Customs, Natural History, Religion, etc."

and would cover "China, Japan, Mongolia, Tibet, The Eastern Archipelago, and the 'Far East' generally."

The journal was not supported by any church, but missionaries frequently published articles of sinological interest.

[2] The journal was published from 1872 to July, 1901, a total of twenty-five volumes.