Samuel Wells Williams
(1812–1884)

American linguist, diplomat, missionary, and scholar in China

Samuel Wells Williams

Works

  • Narrative of a Voyage of the Ship Morrison, Captain D. Ingersoll, to Lewchew and Japan, in the Months of July and August, 1837 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
  • The Chinese Repository (1842) (external scan)
  • Easy Lessons in Chinese, or, Progressive Exercises to Facilitate the Study of That Language, Especially Adapted to the Canton Dialect (1842) (external scan)
  • Ying Hwá Yun-fú Lih-kün: An English and Chinese Vocabulary, in the Court Dialect (1844) (external scan)
  • The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants (1848; reprinted 1882, 1907) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
  • Account of a Japanese Romance (1849) (external scan)
  • Ying Wá Fan Wan Ts'üt Iú': A Tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton Dialect (1856) (external scan)
  • The Chinese Commercial Guide, Containing Treaties, Tariffs, Regulations, Tables, etc. Useful in the Trade to China & Eastern Asia, with an Appendix of Sailing Directions for Those Seas and Coasts (1856; 1863, 5th ed.) (external scan)
  • A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language, Arranged According to the Wu-Fang Yuen Yin, with the Pronunciation of the Characters as Heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai (1874; reprinted 1896) (external scan)
  • Chinese Immigration (1879) (external scan)
  • A History of China, Being the Historical Chapters from The Middle Kingdom (1897)
  • A Journal of the Perry Expedition to Japan (1910) (external scan)


Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

 
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