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Williams, Samuel Wells

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Williams, Samuel Wells (1812-1884)

US scholar and diplomat. The leading sinologist of his day, he published several Chinese dictionaries, and his Middle Kingdom (1848, revised 1883) was for decades the standard English-language work on China. Born in Utica, New York, the son of a printer, he directed a US mission press in Canton and Macau (1833-45) and was secretary and interpreter to the US legation in China (1856-76).
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