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Thomas Taylor Meadows

1815 – 1868

British sinologist and diplomatic interpreter from Chinese

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Lived 1815 – 1868 (aged 52–53). Thomas Taylor Meadows was a British orientalist and sinologist.

Thomas Taylor Meadows (1815–1868) was a British sinologist and diplomat. Born in Northern England, after studies in Chinese with Karl Friedrich Neumann at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, he became a member of the British diplomatic corps, arriving in Hong Kong in 1842, and becoming Acting Consul in Shanghai from 1859 to 1863. His best-known work are "Desultory Notes on the Government and People of China and on the Chinese Language" and "The Chinese and their Rebellions." The latter is valued as a close account of the Taiping Rebellion. He died in north China.

Historian John S. Gregory considered him both "deeply concerned for China, and a profound student of its history and culture" as well as "an agent of Western imperialism in China." His younger brother was John Armstrong Taylor Meadows.

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Born
1815
Birth century
Died
1868
Education
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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British sinologist and diplomatic interpreter from Chinese

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Thomas Taylor Meadows died in 1868.

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Thomas Taylor Meadows was an orientalist and sinologist.

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