the people comparatively could read. The missionaries had to be many-sided, now preaching to the Malays, now to the Chinese, now to the English population; now setting up types, now teaching in the schools; now evangelizing new districts and neighbouring islands, now gathering together their little congregations at their own settlement. The reports do not greatly vary from year to year. The work was hard, and seemingly unproductive. The people listened, but often did not respond. The converts were few. Mary Morrison returned to China only to die in 1821; Mrs. Milne had died already. Morrison was 39. In 1822 William Milne died, after a brief but valuable missionary life, and Morrison was left to reflect that he alone of the first four Protestant missionaries to China was now left alive. He reviewed the history of the mission by writing a retrospect of these fifteen years. China was still as impervious as ever to European and Christian influence; but the amount of solid literary work accomplished was immense. Scholarly work Robert Morrison's Dictionary of the Chinese Language was the first Chinese–English, English–Chinese dictionary, largely based on the Kangxi Dictionary and a Chinese rhyming dictionary of the same era. This meant that his tonal markings were those of Middle Chinese rather than those actually spoken in his age. Owing to the tutors available to him, his transcriptions were based on Nanjing Mandarin rather than the Beijing dialect. Works This is a list of scholarly, missionary and other works by Robert Morrison : Alt URL in six volumes: Part I, Vol. I - Part I, Vol. II - Part I, Vol. III - Part II, Vol. I - Part II, Vol. II - Part III - The Morrison Collection Bibliography See also Morrison Academy Yung Wing Raffles Institution, the oldest school in Singapore, all-boys in Year 1-4 and co-ed in Year 5-6 Ying Wa College, the world's first Anglo-Chinese school founded in 1818 by Morrison, now located in Hong Kong Notes References Citations Bibliography Uganda Sze Pui KWAN, "From Print to Spin, The Print and Portraitures of Robert Morrison," in The Journal of the Chinese Studies, No. 69, 2019, pp. 63–121. Lai, John T. P. Negotiating Religious Gaps: The Enterprise of Translating Christian Tracts by Protestant Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century China (Institut Monumenta Sérica, 2012). . Hancock, Christopher (2008), Robert Morrison and the Birth of Chinese Protestantism (T&T Clark). Morrison, Eliza (1839). Memoirs