Getting to Know Your Beijing Neighbors: E.T.C. Werner

Perhaps best known today as the adopted father of one of the city's most famous murder victims, Edward Thomas Chalmers Werner (1864-1954) had a long -- and colorful -- stint as a diplomat and then gained fame as a Sinologist. His Myths and Legends of China, published in 1922, was long considered THE definitive work on Chinese folklore published in a Western language.