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This book is a biography of a Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact. He made significant contributions to knowledge transfer, both to and from China: in missionary work; as a teacher, and as a writer in English and an internationally recognised major sinologist.
List of contents
Introduction
Part 1: The British Road to China
1. The British Discovery of China
2. The British Protestant Missionary Encounter with China
Part 2: From Printer-Missionary to Bible Agent
3. Wylie's London Missionary Society Years (1847-1860)
4. Wylie's British and Foreign Bible Society Years (1863-1877)
Part 3: From Printer-Missionary to Missionary-Sinologist
5. Wylie's Translations as Knowledge Transfer to China
6. Wylie's Other Contributions to Knowledge Transfer
7. Knowledge Transfer from China - Wylie as Sinologist
8. Wylie's Other Contributions to Knowledge Transfer from China
9. Legacy and Final Years
About the author
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.
Summary
This book is a biography of a Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact. He made significant contributions to knowledge transfer, both to and from China: in missionary work; as a teacher, and as a writer in English and an internationally recognised major sinologist.
