Joseph Edkins
British missionary
Joseph Edkins was a British Protestant missionary who spent 57 years in China, 30 of them in Beijing. As a Sinologue, he specialised in Chinese religions. He was also a linguist, a translator, and a philologist. Wikipedia
Born: December 19, 1823, Nailsworth, United Kingdom
Died: April 23, 1905 (age 81 years), Shanghai, China
Spouse: Jane Edkins (m. 1859)
Books
Chinese Buddhism
1879
A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese: As Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect
1853
A vocabulary of the Shanghai dialect
1869
China's place in philology
1871
A grammar of the Chinese colloquial language commonly called the Mandarin dialect
1857
Religion in China: Containing a Brief Account of the Three Religions of the Chinese, with Observations on the Prospects of Christian Conversion Amongst that People
1877