Thomas Franciscus Wade

**Thomas Francis Wade** (natus Londinii die 25 Augusti 1818; mortuus Cantabrigiae die 1 Augusti 1895) fuit legatus Britannorum ad Imperium Sinense, interpres, Sinologus et professor linguae Sinicae in Universitate Cantabrigiensi. Alumnus fuit scholae Harrovianae et deinde Collegii Trinitatis apud Cantabrigienses. Creavit systema transscribendi a scriptura Sinica ad Latinam, quod systema, postea ab Herberto Allen Giles emendatum, sub appellatione Wade–Giles etiam hodie cognoscitur.

## Opera 
* 1850 : *Note on the Condition and Government of the Chinese Empire in 1849.* Hongcongi Citatio
* 1850 (interpres) : ''Japan; a chapter from the ... Hái kwoh t'ú chí; or, Illustrated notice of countries beyond the sea*. Hongcongi: China Mail Citatio
* 1851 : *The Chinese army: containing notices of its Bannermen, Hánkiun, and Luhying divisions, with details respecting their organization, locations, pay, efficiency, &c*. Canton Citatio
* 1859 : *The Hsin chin lu, or, Book of experiments: being the first of a series of contributions to the study of Chinese*. Hongcongi: China Mail Textus apud archive.org
* 1859 : *The Peking Syllabary; being a collection of the characters representing the dialect of Peking; arranged after a new orthography in syllabic classes, according to the four tones. Designed to accompany the Hsin Ching Lu, or Book of Experiments*. Hongcongi Citatio
* 1867 : *Yü-yen tzŭ-erh chi, a progressive course designed to assist the student of colloquial Chinese, as spoken in the capital and the metropolitan department : in eight parts, with key, syllabary, and writing exercises*. Londinii: Trübner
* 1867 : *Wên-chien tzŭ-erh chi. Key to the Tzŭ erh chi. Documentary series*. Londinii: Trübner Editio 1905
* 1869 (interpres) : *The Lun yü: being utterances of Kung Tzu, known to the western world as Confucius*. Hertfordiae Citatio huius operis
* 1871 : *Despatches from Mr. Wade and vice-admiral Kellett respecting the state of affairs in China* (documentum parlamenti Britannici)
* 1886 (cum Walter Caine Hillier) : *Yü yen tzu erh chu: a progressive course designed to assist the student of colloquial Chinese*. 2a ed. Sciamhaevi: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs Editionis 1903 vol. 1 vol. 2

## Notae 
## Bibliographia 
* P. D. Coates, *The China consuls: British consular officers, 1843–1943*. Hongcongi: Oxford University Press, 1988
* James C. Cooley, *T.F. Wade in China: pioneer in global diplomacy 1842-1882*. Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1981. ISBN 90-04-06198-3 
* Henri Cordier, "Thomas Francis Wade" in *T'oung Pao* vol. 6 (1895) pp. 407-412 JSTOR
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* J. K. Fairbank, K. F. Bruner, E. M. Matheson, edd., *The I.G. in Peking: letters of Robert Hart, 1868–1907*. Cantabrigiae Massachusettensium: Harvard University Press, 1975
* Herbert A. Giles, *A Catalogue of the Wade Collection of Chinese and Manchu Books in the Library of the University of Cambridge*. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 1898 Textus apud archive.org
* J. Hevia, "An Imperial Nomad and the Great Game: Thomas Francis Wade in China" in *Late Imperial China* vol. 16 no. 2 (1995) pp. 1–22 MUSE
* H. B. Morse, *The International Relations of the Chinese Empire''. 3 voll. Londinii: Longmans, 1910-1918 Vol. 1 2 3
* Paul Sinclair, "Thomas Wade's "Yü yen tzŭ êrh chi" and the Chinese Language Textbooks of Meiji-Era Japan" in *Asia Major* 3a ser. vol. 16 (2003) pp. 147-174 JSTOR
* Roel Sterckx, *In the Fields of Shennong: An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 30 September 2008 to mark the establishment of the Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science and Civilization*. Cantabrigiae: Needham Research Institute, 2008. ISBN 0-9546771-1-0
* Hans J. van de Ven, "Wade, Sir Thomas Francis (1818–1895)" in 

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