Herbert Allen Giles
[English] Herbert Allen Giles (b. 1845 in Oxford; d. 1935 in Cambridge) was a British diplomat and sinologist. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system earlier established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. [Deutsch] Herbert Allen Giles (geb. 1845 in Oxford; gest. 1935 in Cambridge) war ein britischer Diplomat und Sinologe. Er modifizierte das von Thomas Wade etablierte System zur Romanisierung von Mandarin-Chinesisch, wodurch das bekannte Wade-Giles Chinesisch-Transliterationssystem entstand.
Works (26)
Antología de la literatura fantástica
聊齋誌異
August 1, 2001
Gems of Chinese literature
China and the Chinese
A history of Chinese literature
Chinese poetry in English verse
Religions of ancient China
An introduction to the history of Chinese pictorial art
The Civilization of China
February 2003
A Chinese-English dictionary
A Dictionary Of Colloquial Idioms In The Mandarin Dialect
Arcana Saitica Briefly Discussed in Three Essays on the Masonic Tracing Boards
China and the Chinese
China and the Manchus
1912
Chinese without a teacher, being a collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin dialect, with a vocabulary
Chinese without a teacher
An introduction to the history of Chinese pictorial art
Short stories from Giles' Historic China
Historic China, and other sketches
A glossary of reference on subjects connected with the Far East
Chinese without a teacher: being a collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin ..
On some translations and mistranslations in Dr. Williams' Syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language
Synoptical studies in Chinese character =
Historic China
A Chinese biographical dictionary
Confucianism and its rivals