[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.
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Chinese Sketches
18 editions - first published in 1876 -
The Civilization of China
17 editions - first published in 1911 -
A history of Chinese literature
17 editions - first published in 1901 -
China and the Manchus
14 editions - first published in 1912 -
A Chinese biographical dictionary
13 editions - first published in 1898 -
China and the Chinese
12 editions - first published in 1902 -
A Chinese-English dictionary
11 editions - first published in 1892 -
Religions of ancient China
11 editions - first published in 1905 -
Gems of Chinese literature: Verse
8 editions - first published in 1884 -
Chinese without a teacher: being a collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin dialect, with a vocabulary
4 editions - first published in 1872 -
An introduction to the history of Chinese pictorial art
4 editions - first published in 1905 -
Chuang-Tzu: Taoist Philosopher and Chinese Mystic
3 editions - first published in 1974 -
Chinese fairy tales
3 editions - first published in 1911 -
Historic China: and other sketches
3 editions - first published in 1882 -
Chinese without a teacher, being a collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin dialect, with a vocabulary
2 editions - first published in 1901 -
How to begin Chinese
2 editions - first published in 1919 -
Gems of Chinese literature, prose: Gems of Chinese literature, verse
2 editions - first published in 1923 -
Arcana Saitica Briefly Discussed in Three Essays on the Masonic Tracing Boards
2 editions - first published in 1879 -
Some truths about opium: by Herbert A. Giles.
2 editions - first published in 1923 -
Confucianism And Its Rivals 1915
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio V1
2 editions - first published in 2007 -
A Dictionary Of Colloquial Idioms In The Mandarin Dialect
2 editions - first published in 1873 -
Great religions of the world
2 editions - first published in 1901 -
Herbert A. Giles and China
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
The civilisation of China
1 edition - first published in 1911 -
Chinese without a teacher: being a collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin ..
1 edition - first published in 1901 -
Chinese poetry in English verse
1 edition - first published in 1898 -
A Short History of Koolangsu
1 edition - first published in 1878 -
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Religions of Ancient China
1 edition - first published in 1905 -
The Civilization of China & Religions of Ancient China
1 edition - first published in 2006 -
Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzŭ
1 edition - first published in 1906 -
Short cuts to Chinese: including the two hundred best characters
1 edition - first published in 1943 -
Select Chinese verses
1 edition - first published in 1934 -
On some translations and mistranslations in Dr. Williams' Syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language
1 edition - first published in 1879 -
Historic China, and other sketches
1 edition - first published in 1882 -
Quips from a Chinese jest-book
1 edition - first published in 1925 -
Chaos in China
1 edition - first published in 1924 -
Ying i Chung-kuo ko shih hsüan: Select Chinese verses. Translated by Herbert A. Giles and Arthur Waley.
1 edition - first published in 1934 -
Great religions of the world
1 edition - first published in 1901 -
San Tzu Ching: elementary Chinese
1 edition - first published in 1964 -
CHUANG TZU:TAOIST PHIL CH
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
An introduction to the history of Chinese pictorial art
1 edition - first published in 1905 -
A Chinese-English dictionary
1 edition - first published in 1909
Herbert Allen Giles
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Alternative names
- Herbert A. Giles
- Herbert A. Giles, M.A., LL.D.
- H. A. Giles
- Allen Herbert Giles
- Herbert A Giles
- Herbert Giles
- H. Giles
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