A Bicentenary in Robert Morrison's Scholarship on China And his Significance for Today
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12562834 |
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| Authors | T H Barrett (0000-0002-7381-1387, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 705-716 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-1863 • E-ISSN: 1474-0591 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1356186314000868 |
| OpenAlex | W2129284487 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Robert Morrison (1782–1834), the first Protestant missionary to China, was responsible for the completion of the earliest Chinese-English Dictionary in 1814. Though this work would not have reached publication without the help of Chinese assistants, and of the printer P. P. Thoms (1790–1855), even so Morrison's scholarly achievements in this and other aspects of Chinese studies were prodigious. This survey of recent research makes clear the continuing value of his writings to contemporary scholars, and also suggests that he was not simply more seriously engaged in attempting to understand China than his contemporaries but also more enlightened than a good number of his successors in missionary work
Archaeology · Art · China · Literature · Political science · Protestantism · Scholarship · Value (mathematics · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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