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Joseph Edkins

About the Author

Joseph Edkins (1823-1905) was a British Protestant missionary who lived for 57 years in China. A Sinologue, he studied Chinese religion, and was a linguist, translator, and philologist. He held positions for both the London Missionary Society and Chinese Customs. His works include On Early Taoist Alchemy (1857), A Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect (1869), and Chinese Buddhism (1880).

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