Joseph Edkins
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 118 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.
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