Herbert Allen Giles

Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist, educated at Charterhouse. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system established by Thomas Wade earlier, resulting in the Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. He was a diplomat to China (1867 - 1892). He was British Vice Consul at Pagoda Island (1880-83) and Shanghai (1883-85) and Consul at Tamsui (1885-91) and at Ningpo (1891-93) who later became the second professor of Chinese at Cambridge, succeeding Wade, after living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Postal map spelling is also based on the Wade-Giles system described in his A Chinese-English Dictionary. Amongst his other works are Chinese Sketches (1882), China and the Chinese (1902), Religions of Ancient China (1905), The Civilization of China (1911) and China and the Manchus (1912).

Religions of Ancient China

The Hung Lou Meng ... Commonly Called The Dream of the Red Chamber

A Glossary of Reference on Subjects Connected with the Far East

A Dictionary of Colloquial Idioms in the Mandarin Dialect

Gems of Chinese Literature

Lectures Delivered in the University Hall of Dr. Williams's Library, London, October-December, 1914

Confucianism and Its Rivals

A Chinese-English Dictionary

With a Vocabulary

Handbook of the Swatow Dialect

Cambridge University Library

A Catalogue of the Wade Collection of Chinese and Manchu Books in the Library of the University of Cambridge

Chinese Poetry in English Verse

A Chinese Biographical Dictionary

Cyril Scott

Composed for Voice & Pianoforte : Opus 62

A Lost Love

A History of Chinese Literature

Zhuangzi

Generally regarded as one of the foremost works of philosophy in any language, this important book by a brilliant Chinese philosopher and one of Taoism's founding fathers has exerted a profound influence on Chinese thought and led to the development of Zen Buddhism. This new edition contains a number of the most relevant and accessible selections from that great classic.

Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu

Herbert Allen Giles

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