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Robert Morrison (missionary)

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Robert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834), was an Anglo-Scottish Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature". [1]

112 relations: A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, Andrew West (linguist), Astronomy, Beijing, Beijing dialect, Bengal, Benjamin Hobson, Bible, Bible translations into Chinese, Bishop, British Museum, Bullers Green, Cai Gao, Cantonese, Chinese characters, Chinese dictionary, Chinese dollar, Chinese language, Chinese translation theory, Cholera, Christopher Hancock (priest), Church of England, Church of Scotland, Columbia University, Congregational church, David Bogue, David Olyphant, Dutch Malacca, East India Company, Eastern Western Monthly Magazine, Edinburgh, England, Evangelical Magazine, First Great Awakening, Four tones (Middle Chinese), George IV of the United Kingdom, Glasgow, Gosport, Greek language, Guangdong, Guangzhou, Han Chinese, Hebrew language, Hong Kong, Hudson Taylor, Java, Jian Youwen, Jiaqing Emperor, John Robert Morrison, John Wesley, ..., Kangxi Dictionary, Karl Gützlaff, Latin, Liang Fa, List of dissenting academies (1660–1800), London, London Missionary Society, Macau, Malacca, Malay Peninsula, Malays (ethnic group), Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca), Marshall Broomhall, Matthew Henry, Missionary, Morpeth, Northumberland, Morrison Academy, Morrison Hill, Nanjing dialect, New Testament, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northamptonshire, Old Protestant Cemetery (Macau), Peter Parker (physician), Peter Perring Thoms, Portsmouth, Portuguese Macau, Pound sterling, Presbyterianism, Protestant missions in China, Protestantism, Prussia, Public dispensary, Qing dynasty, Queue (hairstyle), Raffles Institution, Robert Morrison Olyphant, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Royal Society, Samuel Dyer, Shorthand, Sinology, Sir George Staunton, 2nd Baronet, Society of Jesus, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Standard Chinese phonology, Systematic theology, Thirteen Factories, Timbuktu, Traditional Chinese medicine, United Kingdom, University of Glasgow, University of Hong Kong, Walter Henry Medhurst, Wat Ngong, Westminster Shorter Catechism, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, William John Townsend, William Milne (missionary), William Napier, 9th Lord Napier, Ying Wa College, Yung Wing. Expand index (62 more) »

A Dictionary of the Chinese Language

A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, in Three Parts or Morrison's Chinese dictionary (1815-1823), compiled by the Anglo-Scottish missionary Robert Morrison was the first Chinese-English, English-Chinese dictionary.

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Andrew West (linguist)

Andrew Christopher West (born 1960) is an English Sinologist.

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Astronomy

Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Beijing dialect

The Beijing dialect, also known as Pekingese, is the prestige dialect of Mandarin spoken in the urban area of Beijing, China.

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Bengal

Bengal (Bānglā/Bôngô /) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in Asia, which is located in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Benjamin Hobson

Benjamin Hobson (1816–1873) (Chinese:合信) was a Protestant medical missionary who served with the London Missionary Society in imperial China during its Qing dynasty.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Bible translations into Chinese

Bible translations into Chinese include translations of the whole or parts of the Bible into any of the levels and varieties of the Chinese language.

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Bishop

A bishop (English derivation from the New Testament of the Christian Bible Greek επίσκοπος, epískopos, "overseer", "guardian") is an ordained, consecrated, or appointed member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Bullers Green

Bullers Green is a part of the town of Morpeth, Northumberland, England.

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Cai Gao

Cai Gao (1788–1818), also known as Tsae A-ko and by various other names, was the first Protestant convert in mainland China.

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Cantonese

The Cantonese language is a variety of Chinese spoken in the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding area in southeastern China.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

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Chinese dictionary

Chinese dictionaries date back over two millennia to the Han Dynasty, which is a significantly longer lexicographical history than any other language.

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Chinese dollar

The Chinese dollar may refer to various historical currencies.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Chinese translation theory

Chinese translation theory was born out of contact with vassal states during the Zhou Dynasty.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Christopher Hancock (priest)

Christopher David Hancock (born 18 February 1954) is an Anglican priest and Academic.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland (The Scots Kirk, Eaglais na h-Alba), known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is the national church of Scotland.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Congregational church

Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches; Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.

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David Bogue

David Bogue (18 February 175025 October 1825) was a British nonconformist leader.

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David Olyphant

David Washington Cincinnatus Olyphant (March7, 1789June10, 1851) was an American trader in the Far East and "the father of the American Mission to China".

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Dutch Malacca

Dutch Malacca (1641–1825) was the longest period that Malacca was under foreign control.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Eastern Western Monthly Magazine

Eastern Western Monthly Magazine was the inaugural modern-age Chinese language magazine first published on August 1, 1833 in Canton (Guangzhou), China by the Prussian Protestant Missionary Karl Gützlaff at a time when foreign missionaries risked strangulation or deportation.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Evangelical Magazine

The Evangelical Magazine was a monthly magazine published in London from 1793 to 1904, and aimed at Calvinist Christians.

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First Great Awakening

The First Great Awakening (sometimes Great Awakening) or the Evangelical Revival was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its Thirteen Colonies between the 1730s and 1740s.

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Four tones (Middle Chinese)

The four tones of Chinese poetry and dialectology are four traditional tone classes of Chinese words.

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George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover following the death of his father, King George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten years later.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Gosport

Gosport is a town in Hampshire on the south coast of England.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong.

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Han Chinese

The Han Chinese,.

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Hebrew language

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Hudson Taylor

James Hudson Taylor (21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, now OMF International).

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Java

Java (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese) is an island of Indonesia.

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Jian Youwen

Jian Youwen (sometimes transliterated Jen Yu-wen or Kan Yau-man in older documents; 1896 – 1978) was a Chinese historian, public official, and sometime Methodist pastor, known in particular for his writings on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

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Jiaqing Emperor

The Jiaqing Emperor (13 November 1760 – 2 September 1820), personal name Yongyan, was the seventh emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, and the fifth Qing emperor to rule over China, from 1796 to 1820.

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John Robert Morrison

John Robert Morrison (17 April 1814 – 29 August 1843) was a British interpreter and colonial official in China.

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John Wesley

John Wesley (2 March 1791) was an English cleric and theologian who, with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, founded Methodism.

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Kangxi Dictionary

The Kangxi Dictionary was the standard Chinese dictionary during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Karl Gützlaff

Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (8 July 1803 – 9 August 1851), anglicised as Charles Gutzlaff, was a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, notable as one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and in Korea (1832).

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Liang Fa

Liang Fa (1789–1855), also known by other names, was the second Chinese Protestant convert and the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist.

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List of dissenting academies (1660–1800)

This is a list of dissenting academies, English and Welsh educational institutions run by Dissenters to provide an education, and often a vocational training as a minister of religion, outside the Church of England.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Missionary Society

The London Missionary Society was a missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans and various nonconformists.

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Macau

Macau, officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Malacca

Malacca (Melaka; மலாக்கா) dubbed "The Historic State", is a state in Malaysia located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, next to the Strait of Malacca.

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Malay Peninsula

The Malay Peninsula (Tanah Melayu, تانه ملايو; คาบสมุทรมลายู,, မလေး ကျွန်းဆွယ်, 马来半岛 / 馬來半島) is a peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Malays (ethnic group)

Malays (Orang Melayu, Jawi: أورڠ ملايو) are an Austronesian ethnic group that predominantly inhabit the Malay Peninsula, eastern Sumatra and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands which lie between these locations — areas that are collectively known as the Malay world.

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Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca)

Mandarin was the common spoken language of administration of the Chinese empire during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

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Marshall Broomhall

Marshall B. Broomhall (Chinese: 海恩波; 17 July 1866 – 24 October 1937), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China with the China Inland Mission.

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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry (18 October 166222 June 1714) was a Nonconformist minister and author, born in Wales but spending much of his life in England.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Morpeth, Northumberland

Morpeth is a historic market town in Northumberland, north-east England, lying on the River Wansbeck.

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Morrison Academy

Morrison Academy (Chinese: 馬禮遜學校; Wade–Giles: Ma-li-hsün Hsüeh-hsiao; Hanyu Pinyin: Mălĭxùn Xuéxiào; literally: Morrison School) is an international Christian school in Taiwan with campuses in Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung.

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Morrison Hill

Morrison Hill is an area and was a hill in Wan Chai near Happy Valley, on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong.

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Nanjing dialect

Nanjing dialect, also known as Nankinese, or Nanjing Mandarin, is a dialect spoken in Nanjing, China.

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New Testament

The New Testament (Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, trans. Hē Kainḕ Diathḗkē; Novum Testamentum) is the second part of the Christian biblical canon, the first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

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Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.), archaically known as the County of Northampton, is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Old Protestant Cemetery (Macau)

The Old Protestant Cemetery (Cemitério Protestante) is a cemetery in Santo António, Macau, China.

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Peter Parker (physician)

Peter Parker (June 18, 1804 – January 10, 1888) was an American physician and a missionary who introduced Western medical techniques into Qing Dynasty China.

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Peter Perring Thoms

Peter Perring Thoms (fl. 1814 – 1851) was an English nineteenth century printer and Chinese language translator based in Canton (Guangzhou) and Macau, China.

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.

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Portuguese Macau

Portuguese Macau was the period of Macau as a Portuguese colony and later, an overseas province under Portuguese administration from 1557 to 1999.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a part of the reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to Britain, particularly Scotland, and Ireland.

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Protestant missions in China

In the early 19th century, Western colonial expansion occurred at the same time as an evangelical revival – the Second Great Awakening – throughout the English-speaking world, leading to more overseas missionary activity.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen) was a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525 with a duchy centred on the region of Prussia.

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Public dispensary

A public dispensary, charitable dispensary or free dispensary gives advice and medicines free-of-charge, or for a small charge.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.

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Queue (hairstyle)

The queue or cue is a Qing dynasty hairstyle most often worn by Chinese men.

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Raffles Institution

Raffles Institution (RI), founded in 1823, is the oldest school in Singapore for pre-tertiary education.

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Robert Morrison Olyphant

Robert Morrison Olyphant (September9, 1824May3, 1918) was an American businessman active in New York City and China in the late 19th century.

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Royal Observatory, Greenwich

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, moved from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the River Thames.

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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Samuel Dyer

Samuel Dyer 台約爾 (20 February 1804 – 24 October 1843), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China in the Congregationalist tradition, who worked among the Chinese in Malaysia.

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Shorthand

Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language.

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Sinology

Sinology or Chinese studies is the academic study of China primarily through Chinese language, literature, Chinese culture and history, and often refers to Western scholarship.

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Sir George Staunton, 2nd Baronet

Sir George Thomas Staunton, 2nd Baronet (26 May 1781 – 10 August 1859) was an English traveller and Orientalist.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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St Bartholomew's Hospital

St Bartholomew's Hospital, also known simply as Barts and later more formally as The Royal Hospital of St Bartholomew, is a hospital located at Farringdon in the City of London and founded in 1123.

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Standard Chinese phonology

This article summarizes the phonology (the sound system, or in more general terms, the pronunciation) of Standard Chinese (Standard Mandarin).

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Systematic theology

Systematic theology is a discipline of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of the doctrines of the Christian faith.

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Thirteen Factories

The Thirteen Factories also known as the, was a neighbourhood along the Pearl River in southwestern Guangzhou in the Qing Empire from to 1856.

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Timbuktu

Timbuktu, also spelt Tinbuktu, Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo (Tombouctou; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu), is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River.

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Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a style of traditional medicine built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy, but recently also influenced by modern Western medicine.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (Oilthigh Ghlaschu; Universitas Glasguensis; abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities.

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University of Hong Kong

The University of Hong Kong (often abbreviated as HKU) is a public research university located in Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

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Walter Henry Medhurst

Walter Henry Medhurst (29 April 1796 – 24 January 1857), was an English Congregationalist missionary to China, born in London and educated at St Paul's School.

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Wat Ngong

Wat Ngong (1785–1867), also known by various other names, was a Chinese Protestant convert, evangelist, and writer from Guangzhou during the Qing dynasty.

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Westminster Shorter Catechism

The Westminster Shorter Catechism is a catechism written in 1646 and 1647 by the Westminster Assembly, a synod of English and Scottish theologians and laymen intended to bring the Church of England into greater conformity with the Church of Scotland.

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William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst

William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, GCH, PC (14 January 1773 – 13 March 1857) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator.

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William John Townsend

William John Townsend (20 January 1835 – 7 March 1915) was a British minister of the Methodist New Connection.

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William Milne (missionary)

William Milne (April 1785 – 2 June 1822) was the second Protestant missionary sent by the London Missionary Society to China, after his colleague, Robert Morrison.

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William Napier, 9th Lord Napier

William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, Baron Napier FRSE (13 October 1786 – 11 October 1834) was a British Royal Navy officer and trade envoy in China.

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Ying Wa College

Ying Wa College (also referred to as YWC, Anglo-Chinese College) is a direct subsidised boys' secondary school in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

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Yung Wing

Yung Wing (November 17, 1828 – April 21, 1912) was the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university (Yale College in 1854).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morrison_(missionary)

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