The Chinaman and the librarian: the meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687: a lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society
In 1687 a young Chinese Christian convert named Shen Fuzong visited Oxford, where he spent a few weeks working in the Bodleian with Thomas Hyde, Bodley's Librarian. Shen was not only proficient in writing Chinese, but he could also speak and write Latin, and he is the first recorded visitor to...
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| description | In 1687 a young Chinese Christian convert named Shen Fuzong visited Oxford, where he spent a few weeks working in the Bodleian with Thomas Hyde, Bodley's Librarian. Shen was not only proficient in writing Chinese, but he could also speak and write Latin, and he is the first recorded visitor to England from China who could therefore communicate effectively with the English learned classes. Shen helped Hyde catalogue the Bodleian's oriental holdings, and after he left Oxford Shen continued to correspond with Hyde. The manuscript working papers of both men generated by Shen's visit survive in the Sloane manuscripts, as do several of Shen's letters to Hyde. This lecture explores this visit, and Shen's effect of Hyde's subsequent oriental work. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:6ce9489d-9858-4543-a31d-69b2962b05ba2022-04-19T11:37:02ZThe Chinaman and the librarian: the meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687: a lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical SocietyConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:6ce9489d-9858-4543-a31d-69b2962b05baEarly Modern Britain and EuropeChineseIntellectual HistoryHistory of scienceEnglishOxford University Research Archive - Valet2010Poole, WIn 1687 a young Chinese Christian convert named Shen Fuzong visited Oxford, where he spent a few weeks working in the Bodleian with Thomas Hyde, Bodley's Librarian. Shen was not only proficient in writing Chinese, but he could also speak and write Latin, and he is the first recorded visitor to England from China who could therefore communicate effectively with the English learned classes. Shen helped Hyde catalogue the Bodleian's oriental holdings, and after he left Oxford Shen continued to correspond with Hyde. The manuscript working papers of both men generated by Shen's visit survive in the Sloane manuscripts, as do several of Shen's letters to Hyde. This lecture explores this visit, and Shen's effect of Hyde's subsequent oriental work. |
| spellingShingle | Early Modern Britain and Europe Chinese Intellectual History History of science Poole, W The Chinaman and the librarian: the meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687: a lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society |
| title | The Chinaman and the librarian: the meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687: a lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society |
| title_full | The Chinaman and the librarian: the meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687: a lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society |
| title_fullStr | The Chinaman and the librarian: the meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687: a lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Chinaman and the librarian: the meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687: a lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society |
| title_short | The Chinaman and the librarian: the meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687: a lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society |
| title_sort | chinaman and the librarian the meeting of shen fuzong and thomas hyde in 1687 a lecture for the oxford bibliographical society |
| topic | Early Modern Britain and Europe Chinese Intellectual History History of science |
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