Two-Way Knowledge Transfer in Nineteenth Century China

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.

• IntroductionPart 1: The British Road to China1. The British Discovery of China2. The British Protestant Missionary Encounter with ChinaPart 2: From Printer-Missionary to Bible Agent3. Wylie’s London Missionary Society Years (1847-1860)4. Wylie’s British and Foreign Bible Society Years (1863-1877)Part 3: From Printer-Missionary to Missionary-Sinologist 5. Wylie’s Translations as Knowledge Transfer to China6. Wylie’s Other Contributions to Knowledge Transfer7. Knowledge Transfer from China – Wylie as Sinologist8. Wylie's Other Contributions to Knowledge Transfer from China 9. Legacy and Final Years