Joseph Edkins
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 119 years ago |
Date of birth | December 19,1823 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | Nailsworth |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | April 23,1905 |
Died | Shanghai |
China | |
Spouse | Jane Edkins |
Education | University of London |
Chines | 艾約瑟 |
Books | A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese: As Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect |
Chinese Buddhism: A Volume of Sketches, Historical, Descriptive, and Critical | |
A vocabulary of the Shanghai dialect | |
The religious condition of the Chinese, with observations on the prospects of Christian conversion amongst that people | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1220011 |
Joseph Edkins Life story
Joseph Edkins was a British Protestant missionary who spent 57 years in China, 30 of them in Beijing. As a Sinologue, he specialised in Chinese religions. He was also a linguist, a translator, and a philologist.