John Armstrong Taylor Meadows
John Armstrong Taylor Meadows (1817-1875) was a British interpreter in China, and the younger brother of Thomas Taylor Meadows. Working at Ningpo, he met Robert Hart. Disenchanted with government service, he became a merchant. [1]He had several children by his Chinese partner, and died in Tianjin. [2] [3]
References[]
- ^ Hart, Robert. Entering China's service: Robert Hart's journals, 1854-1863. Vol. 1. Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1986. https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Entering_China_s_Service/HY8fopzq5g0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=john+meadows+ningpo&pg=PA155&printsec=frontcover
- ^ Hart, Robert; Campbell, James Duncan (September 11, 1975). The I. G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674443204 – via Google Books.
- ^ Timothy Mo. "The Saintly and the Suborned." In "Cross-Cultural Studies: China and the World : A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Zhang Longxi", edited by Suoqiao QIAN, BRILL, 2015.
Categories:
- Interpreters
- 19th-century British people
- 19th-century Chinese people
- 1817 births
- 1875 deaths