Two-way knowledge transfer in nineteenth century China : the Scottish missionary-sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887) /

Two-way knowledge transfer in nineteenth century China : the Scottish missionary-sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887) /

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Author / Creator:	Gow, I. T. M., author.
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. ©2023
Description:	xiii, 228 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 175 Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ; 175.
Subject:	Wylie, A. -- (Alexander), -- 1815-1887 Wylie, A. -- (Alexander), -- 1815-1887. Missionaries -- Scotland -- Biography. Missionaries -- China -- Biography. Missions -- China. Missionaries. Missions. China. Scotland. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12983121

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ISBN:	0367722453 9780367722456 9781000786477 9781000786446 9781003154013
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
Summary:	"This book is a biography of a remarkable Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact with a gift and passion for languages and mathematics. He made significant contributions to knowledge transfer, both to and from China: in missionary work as a printer, playing an important role in the production and distribution of a new Chinese translation of the Bible; as a teacher, translating into Chinese key western texts in science and mathematics including Newton and Euclid and publishing the first Chinese textbooks on modern symbolic algebra, calculus and astronomy; and as a writer in English and an internationally recognised major sinologist, bringing to the West much knowledge of China and contributing extensively to the development of British sinology. The book concludes with an overall evaluation of Wylie's contribution to knowledge transfer to and from China, noting the imbalance between the significant corpus of scholarly work specifically on Wylie by Chinese scholars in Chinese and the lack of academic studies by western scholars in English."
Other form:	Print version: Gow, Ian. Two-way knowledge transfer in nineteenth century China. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 1000786447

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