PDF Chinese Diaspora in Britain - British Museum

Chinese diaspora in Britain 1680s The first recorded Chinese person in Britain was Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung, the son of Chinese Christian parents, who came to the court of King James II (1685-1688). Shen was the first person to catalogue the Chinese manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. He died in 1691. His portrait was ................
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