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Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School
The first Chinese edition of The Wealth of Nations was translated by Yen Fu, the noted Chinese scholar, and published in 1902. Lin Ching-jun (Harvard A.M. 1922), president of Fukien Christian University, presented this first edition to Harvard Business School Dean Wallace Donham in May 1935. An accompanying message from President Lin to Dean Donham read "The scholar, Yen Fu, was an uncle of my wife's, so we take a special interest in his work."
This volume is part of the Vanderblue Memorial Collection of Smithiana held at Baker Library Historical Collections. In the 1920s, HBS Professor Homer B. Vanderblue began acquiring works by and about Adam Smith, with a special focus on The Wealth of Nations. The Vanderblue Collection remains one of the most comprehensive resources of the works of Adam Smith in the world today. Please visit the Baker Library Historical Collections website to learn more about the Kress Collection of Business and Economics.
Click on the links below to view the flip books of the Chinese edition of The Wealth of Nations.
