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John Armstrong Taylor Meadows

John Armstrong Taylor Meadows

British interpreter

John Armstrong Taylor Meadows (1817-1875) was a British interpreter in China, and the younger brother of Thomas Taylor Meadows. Working at Ningbo, 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

  1. [1]
    Hart, Robert (1986). Entering China's Service: Robert Hart's Journals, 1854-1863. Harvard Univ Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-25735-1.
  2. [2]
    Hart, Robert; Campbell, James Duncan (11 September 1975). The I. G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674443204 – via Google Books.
  3. [3]
    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.
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