Joseph Edkins

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Joseph Edkins (19 December 1823 – 23 April 1905) was a British

During his years in Shanghai, in July 1860 he visited the Taiping Rebellion leaders at Suzhou, Jiangsu. He made several contacts with the leaders of the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" in an effort to determine the precise beliefs of this movement. In late March 1861 he spent eleven days in Taiping-held Nanjing.

In 1860 the Edkins family moved to Yantai, Shandong, and in 1861 to Tianjin. His wife died before 1863 at the age of 22. Edkins remarried, to Janet Wood White, that year. In May 1863 he settled in Beijing. In 1872, he collaborated with William A P Martin to publish the Chinese magazine Peking Magazine (中西聞見錄). The magazine ran for 36 issues, terminating in 1875.

In 1873, he travelled alone to England via the United States, and returned to Beijing in 1876. In 1880 he resigned from the London Missionary Society to become a translator for the

Works

• Joseph Edkins (1853). A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese: as exhibited in the Shanghai dialect. Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press.
• Joseph Edkins (1857). A grammar of the Chinese colloquial language commonly called the Mandarin dialect. Shanghai: Presbyterian mission press.; Joseph Edkins (1864). A grammar of the Chinese colloquial language commonly called the Mandarin dialect (2 ed.). Shanghai: Presbyterian mission press.
• Joseph Edkins (1864). Progressive lessons in the Chinese spoken language: with lists of common words and phrases, and an appendix containing the laws of tones in the Peking dialect ... (2 ed.). Shanghai: Presbyterian mission press. p. 103.
• Joseph Edkins (1869). A vocabulary of the Shanghai dialect. Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press.
• Joseph Edkins. The Miau-tsi Tribes. Foochow: Rozario, Marcal and Co.
• Joseph Edkins (1871). China's place in philology: an attempt to show that the languages of Europe and Asia have a common origin. Adegi Graphics LLC. p. 435.
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• Joseph Edkins (1876). Introduction to the study of the Chinese characters. Hertford: Trübner & co. p. 314.
• Joseph Edkins (1876). A catalogue of chinese works in the Bodleian library. Clarendon Press.
• Joseph Edkins (1880). Chinese Buddhism: a Volume of Sketches, Historical, Descriptive, and Critical. London: Trübner & Company.
• Joseph Edkins (1888). The evolution of the Chinese language: as exemplifying the origin and growth of human speech. Trübner and Company. p. 99.
• Joseph Edkins (1898). Opium: Historical Note; or The Poppy in China. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. Joseph Edkins.
• Joseph Edkins (1901). Chinese currency. Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press. pp. 151.
• Joseph Edkins (1903). The revenue and taxation of the Chinese empire. Presbyterian Mission Press. pp. 240.
• Joseph Edkins (1905). Banking and prices in China. Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press. pp. 286.

References

External links

• Biographical sketch and list of his works, at EDKINS Surname Resource Centre
• Biographical sketch, at the Ricci 21st Century Roundtable database
• His works published on Hong Kong journals, at Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO), many pieces, search for "Edkins"