Edward Harper Parker

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Edward Harper Parker (3 July 1849 – 1926) was an English barrister and sinologist who wrote a number of books on the First and Second Opium Wars and other Chinese topics. On his return to England he ended his career as a university professor.

Biography

He was educated at the

In his day, he was well known as a popular interpreter of current and historical events. But his greatest contribution historically may turn out to be an unusual outlook on colloquial Chinese language. He identified, most significantly, "characterless words" in Cantonese and Hakka, among other dialect groups. Chinese historical linguistics, as practiced both natively and among Westerners, did not begin taking these words seriously until almost the present day.[3]

Works

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Edward Harper Parker

• Comparative Chinese Family Law (1879)
• The Opium War (1887)
• Chinese Account of the Opium War (1888)
• China's Relations with Foreigners (1888)
• Up the Yangtsze (1892)
• Burma (1893)
• A Thousand Years of the Tartars (1895) [1]
• The life, labours and doctrines of Confucius (1897)
• China (1901)
• John Chinaman (1901)
• China, Past and Present (1903)
• China and Religion (1905)
• Ancient China Simplified (1908) [2] [3] [4] [5]
• Studies in Chinese Religion (1910)
• China, her history, diplomacy, and commerce: from the earliest times to the present day (1917)[6] [7]

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