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“...MAGAZINES PUBLISHED BY THE CHEFOO SCHOOL
1. The Chefoo Magazine
This magazine, only published once, is an oddity. It was dated June 1913, Vol. 1, No. 1.
Someone later "Vol V above No. 1" in pen on the front cover. This was no doubt done out
of confusion, thinking it was issued by the alumni association that used the same name.
Volume 5 Issue 1 of the authentic Chefoo Magazine is dated September 1912.
On page 1 of this internal School issue we see: "Editorial: The 'Why' and 'Wherefore.'"
There is no reference why they used the same name as the alumni magazine.
This editorial made the following statements:
"Another Magazine!! Yes, and we trust, there is no apology needed for it. In past years
there have been so many sporadic attempts to run a Magazine that we believe there is
ample proof of the desire - if not the necessity - of a magazine for the School.
"Hitherto the various Magazines have not contained very much of School News. It is
with the express object of chronicling School events...”
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“...Another probable reason why this issue of The Chefoo Magazine did not continue beyond
the first issue is that no doubt there was an outcry by the alumni association that their
journal title had been 'stolen' by the school students.
2. The Magnate
It is not clear how many years this magazine was published. We have just two copies, one
dated October 1926 and the other October 1927. It was produced by the Boys School.
These magazines are included courtesy of the CSA archival collection at the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
3. The Chefusian
• We have issues of this magazine from 1928 until 1939. 1928 is the first, but it is not
clear that 1939 was the last. The format was similar in size and general format to the
Alumni's The Chefoo Magazine, but the focus was strictly on activities at School.
• In the Editorial of the first issue it states that it is "an official and united B.S.-G.S.
magazine" (i.e. Boys School and Girls School), it went on to state that...”
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“...Ltd., a local Chefoo
business. James McMullan was formerly a missionary with the China Inland Mission, but
he and his wife left in the 1890s to form their own mission. The reason was that they
wanted to establish a small business as an adjunct to their missionary work teaching
young women to embroider and sew. The business was established to sell their
products to pay for the school and cover the costs of the business. It was the policy of
the CIM that its missionaries were not to operate a separate business enterprise,
regardless of the reason. When James McMullan died his son Bobbs (so named in
honour of two 'Roberts') took over the business while his widowed mother and sister
continued to operate the school and do other missionary work. In time Bobbs became
enchanted by the business end of the enterprise and expanded it to a wide variety of
other ventures such that by 1941 the company was the largest business in Chefoo.
Bobbs and his brother James Jr. attended the Chefoo School, as did...”
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