The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, Edward Harper

PARKER, Edward Harper, English Chinese scholar: b. 3 July 1849. He was educated at the Royal Institution School, Liverpool, and became a barrister of the Middle Temple. He intended to engage in the tea trade, studied Chinese, and as an interpreter traveled in Mongolia 1869-71. He was then in the consular service in various parts of the world (1871-95), and since 1901 has been professor of Chinese in Victoria University, Manchester, and reader in Chinese, University College, Liverpool, since 1896. He is the author of &lsquo;Comparative Chinese Family Law&rsquo; (1879); &lsquo;The Opium War&rsquo; (1887); &lsquo;China's Relations with Foreigners&rsquo; (1888); &lsquo;Up the Yangtze&rsquo; (1892); &lsquo;Burma&rsquo; (1893); &lsquo;A Thousand Years of the Tartars&rsquo; (1895); &lsquo;China&rsquo; (1901); &lsquo;John Chinaman&rsquo; (1901); &lsquo;China, Past and Present&rsquo; (1903); &lsquo;China and Religion&rsquo; (1905); &lsquo;Ancient China Simplified&rsquo; (1908); &lsquo;Studies in Chinese Religion&rsquo; (1910).