William Arnot Mather, American Missionary to China and Richard Burroughs Mather, Professor of Chinese: The Biography and Autobiography of a Father and Son
(Edwin Mellon Press) This is a double-biography of both Richard Mather and his father, William Arnot Mather 1896. The elder Mather was a missionary in China, where he created a system of transcribing the Scriptures into Chinese phonetic script. The younger Mather was a professor of Chinese studies at the University of Minnesota for more than 40 years.
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