A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and Modern Gützlaff Paperback Volume 1

A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and ModernComprising a Retrospect of the Foreign Intercourse and Trade with China\nAuthor(s): Karl Friedrich August Gtzlaff\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108079464, 978-1108079464\nSynopsis\nRemarkable yet controversial, the Prussian-born Protestant missionary Karl Friedrich August Gtzlaff [tel] sought to spread Christianity in the Far East. A gifted linguist, he sailed to Siam and worked on translating the Bible into Thai. The British missionary Robert Morrison had fired his interest in China, and Gtzlaff later focused his evangelising efforts there, learning several dialects and distributing translated literature. He also worked for the East India Company, notably serving as an interpreter during negotiations for the Treaty of Nanking. Also reissued in this series are his Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China [tel] and China Opened [tel]. T.