Two-way knowledge transfer in nineteenth century China : the Scottish missionary-sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887) / Ian Gow.
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge,
2023.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781000786446 1000786447 9781003154013 1003154018 9781000786477 1000786471 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 06, 2022) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Professor Ian Gow after a career teaching and researching on East Asian studies is now an Honorary Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. In the latter decades of his career he was involved in leading knowledge transfer activity through delivering degrees and research programmes from the UK to China. He served as Founding Provost of the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China's first Sino-Foreign Joint Venture University. He was also founding Principal of the Sino-British University College in Shanghai, a consortium of 9 British Universities and the Shanghai University of Science and Technology. |