B: The great missionary Robert Morrison had begun learning Chinese in London in 1805 by using dictionaries and the help of a Chinese person from Canton and became the first British teacher of Chinese to hold a class in London, some twenty years later.
一八三七年第一位漢學教授產生了，年薪六十鎊。當時有不少人曾經反對，而贊成者的高見是﹘ ﹘此職所費不多，也不過是請個廚子或衣帽小廝的一半花費。漢學圖書寶庫另外，James Legge 在一八七六年成為牛津漢學教授，他也是一位傳教士。