Two-Way Knowledge Transfer in Nineteenth Century China - Couverture souple

Gow, Ian

 
9780367722432: Two-Way Knowledge Transfer in Nineteenth Century China

Synopsis

This book is a biography of a Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact. He made significant contributions to knowledge transfer, both to and from China: in missionary work; as a teacher, and as a writer in English and an internationally recognised major sinologist.

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À propos de l?auteur

Professor Ian Gow after a career teaching and researching on East Asian studies is now an Honorary Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. In the latter decades of his career he was involved in leading knowledge transfer activity through delivering degrees and research programmes from the UK to China. He served as Founding Provost of the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China's first Sino-Foreign Joint Venture University. He was also founding Principal of the Sino-British University College in Shanghai, a consortium of 9 British Universities and the Shanghai University of Science and Technology.

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9780367722456: Two-Way Knowledge Transfer in Nineteenth Century China

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ISBN 10 :  0367722453 ISBN 13 :  9780367722456
Editeur : Routledge, 2022
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