Wei Sanwei And The Study Of Chinese Characters In The West

This paper systematically analyzes the early 19 th century Sinologist Samuel Wells Williams of sinological experience,as well as his personal life,work,and the research contents of Chinese characters from sinological works Samuel Wells Williams,find some reference in the Chinese international education idea and content.Samuel Wells Williams 's research of Chinese characters,mainly reflected in his writing of Chinese textbooks of sinological works and,in the downstairs Easy Lessons in Chinese,The Middle Kingdom the two writings,he from the origin of Chinese characters and Chinese word,Chinese character base and radical as well as the Chinese character writing tools such as point of study of Chinese characters.This paper combs and analyzes the above research,and summarizes his contributions and academic influence on the western biography of Chinese characters.