Adele M. Fielde Quotes

1839–1916 United States

Adele Marion Fielde (March 30, 1839 – February 23, 1916) was a missionary in Shantou, China for the American Baptist Missionary Union, an author, a feminist, a social and political activist, and a myrmecologist, known for inventing the Fielde nest. She was in 1894 a founding member of the League for Political Education and, in the last few years of her life, a trustee of the Seattle Public Library.

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Every Chinese word has a tone, inseparable from its pronunciation. In the Tîe Ciu dialect there are eight tones, which can be acquired only from a living teacher.

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