The Anglican and Episcopal Churches have both long been active in China, with Prayer Books being produced in Chinese starting in the mid-1800's for the Anglican (English) Church, and from 1880 for the Episcopal (American) Church. Some three dozen or so editions have been produced. After the Communist takeover of Mainland China in 1949, activity was obviously not possible there, and was limited to Hong Kong (Anglican Church) and Taiwan (Episcopal Church - the Taiwanese Episcopal Church was then, as it is now, a part of the U. S. Episcopal Church).

The text presented here is taken from a small book The Order for Daily Morning Prayer, published by the Episcopal Church in Taiwan. There is an inscription in my copy dated 1964 stating that the book was obtained at that year's General Convention of the Episcopal Church. The text is in English on the left-hand pages, and Chinese on the right. The Chinese text follows Western conventions - that is, it is presented horizontally, left-to-right, front-to-back. It contains everything in the 1928 Morning Prayer service, including rubrics, omitting only the alternative prayer for the President. Morning Prayer is followed by several collects (p. 49-50, 1928 BCP), and then by most of the Additional Prayers found at the very end of the 1928 BCP (p. 594-600). There is no publication data or certificate nor other indication of official sanction, beyond what can be seen on the front cover (pictured at right).

Because the text is in Chinese, it is presented here as a series of GIF files, i. e., as graphics. Each page is presented as a single graphic, as indicated in the Table of Contents, below. Clicking on the page number will bring up the graphic of that page in your browser; you will then need to hit the "Back" button to return here. Remember that each item below may carry over to the following page. The book is also available as a single PDF file (size = 1.3MB).