Thomas Francis Wade
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 129 years ago |
Date of birth | August 25,1818 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | London |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | July 31,1895 |
Died | Cambridge |
United Kingdom | |
Field | Sinology |
Job | Diplomat |
Education | Harrow School |
Simplifi chines | 威妥玛 |
Books | Yu Yen Tzu Erh Chi: a Progressive Course of Colloquial Chinese as Spoken in the Captical and the Metropolitan Department. 2d Ed |
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ID | 1423108 |
Thomas Francis Wade Life story
Sir Thomas Francis Wade, GCMG KCB was a British diplomat and sinologist who produced an early Chinese textbook in English, in 1867, that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization system for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892.