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Samuel Wells Williams (衛三畏;
22nd September 1812-
1884) was a
linguist and
diplomat from the
United States of America. He was born in
Utica, New York and studied at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in
Troy, New York. On graduation he was elected as a Professor of the Institute. On the
June 15 1833, and still in his Twenties, he sailed for China to take charge of the Printing Press of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at
Guangdong,
China. In
1837 he sailed on the
Morrison to
Japan. Officially this trip was to return some stranded Japanese sailors, but it was also an attempt to open Japan to American trade. On
November 20 1845 he married
Sarah Walworth. From
1848 to
1851 Williams was the editor of the
Chinese Repository, a leading Western journal published in China. In
1853 he was attached to Commodore
Matthew Calbraith Perry expedition to Japan. In
1855 he was appointed Secretary of the United States Legation to China. In
1860 he was appointed
chargé d'affaires for the United States in
Beijing. He resigned his position on
October 25 1876, 43 years to the day that he first landed at
Guangzhou in 1833. He wrote
A Tonic Dictionary Of The Chinese Language In The Canton Dialect (英華分韻撮要) in
1856. He returned to the United States of America in
1877 and became the first Professor of Chinese in the United States at
Yale University.
Publications
- The Chinese commercial guide (1856)
- A Tonic Dictionary Of The Chinese Language In The Canton Dialect (1856)
- The Middle Kingdom: a survey of the geography, government, literature, social life, arts, and history of the Chinese empire and its inhabitants (New York; Scribner's 1882; first edition New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1848)
- Account of a Japanese romance (1849)
- A syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language, arranged according to the Wu-fang yuan yin, with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy and Shanghai (1874)
- Syllabic Dictionary Of The Chinese Language (1879)
- Chinese Immigration (1879)
- A History Of China Being The Historical Chapters From "The Middle Kingdom" (1897)
- A journal of the Perry expedition to Japan
- Narrative Of A Voyage Of The Ship Morrison Captain D. Ingersoll, To Lewchew And Japan, In The Months of July and August, 1837
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