Author · China
Wang Tao
Died in 1897
Wang Tao was born on 10 November 1828 in Luzhi, near Suzhou. In 1849 he entered the printing house of the London Missionary Society in Shanghai, where he helped to translate the New Testament. Accused in 1862 of having written to the Taiping rebels, he fled to Hong Kong and assisted James Legge there in his translation of the Chinese classics, then followed him to Scotland in 1867. Back in Hong Kong, he founded a Chinese-language newspaper there, before returning to Shanghai in 1884. He argued for reforms of institutions, according to Britannica, and died in Shanghai in 1897.