Thomas Francis Wade | |||||||||
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 Thomas Wade (published 1895) | |||||||||
| Born | 25 August 1818 London, England | ||||||||
| Died | 31 July 1895 (aged 76) Cambridge, England | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge | ||||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||||
| Fields | Sinology | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 威妥瑪 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 威妥玛 | ||||||||
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Sir Thomas Francis Wade, GCMG KCB (25 August 1818 – 31 July 1895) was a British diplomat and sinologist who produced an early Chinese textbook in English, in 1867,[1] that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization system for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892. He was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University.
- ^ Kaske, Elisabeth (2008). The Politics of Language in Chinese Education: 1895–1919. BRILL. p. 68. ISBN 978-90-04-16367-6.