Herbert Allen Giles (, 8 thang 12 nam 1845 – 13 thang 2 nam 1935) la mot nha ngoai giao va nha Han hoc nguoi Anh, giu chuc giao su tieng Trung tai Đai hoc Cambridge trong 35 nam. Giles theo hoc tai Truong Charterhouse truoc khi lam nha ngoai giao cho Anh tai Trung Quoc. Ong la nguoi cai bien he thong phien am Quan thoai do Thomas Wade xay dung, qua đo cho ra đoi he thong phien am Wade–Giles đuoc nhieu nguoi biet đen ngay nay. Cac tac pham ma ong dich gom co Luan ngu (tieng Anh: Analects of Confucius), Đao đuc kinh (tieng Anh: Tao Te Ching), Nam Hoa Kinh (tieng Anh: Chuang Tzu) va đac biet la Tu đien tieng Anh–Trung (1892).


Cuoc đoi va su nghiep Herbert Allen Giles la con trai thu tu cua giao si Anh giao John Allen Giles (1808–1884). Sau khi theo hoc Truong Charterhouse, Herbert tro thanh nha ngoai giao Anh toi trieu nha Thanh o Trung Quoc, phuc vu tu nam 1867 đen 1892. Ong cung mat vai nam (1885–1888) song o Thanh Santo Domingo o Đam Thuy, bac Đai Loan. Chau chat cua Giles la Giles Pickford chia se trong mot bieu phat bieu o le khai truong Bao tang Fort San Domingo vao ngay 8 thang 12 nam 2005 rang cu co cua ong - Herbert A Giles la lanh su cua Nu vuong Anh o Đam Thuy, Thanh San Domingo tu 1885 đen 1891. Truoc thoi điem ay, vao nam 1869, Giles tru o Cao Hung. Ong ket hon voi Catherine Maria (Kate) Fenn vao nam 1870 va cho ra đoi cac con gom Bertram, Valentine, Lancelot, Edith, Mable va Lionel Giles.
Nam 1897, Herbert Giles tro thanh giao su tieng Trung đuoc bo nhiem o Đai hoc Cambridge, ke nhiem Thomas Wade. O thoi điem ong đuoc bo nhiem, bay gio khong co giao su Han hoc nao khac cong tac o Cambridge. Vi the Giles danh phan lon thoi gian đoc cac tai lieu Han ngu co ma Wade tang lai truoc đo, roi xuat ban an pham ma ong chon dich tu cach đoc chiet trung trong van hoc Hoa ngu. Giles đa xuat ban hon 60 cuon sach, bai giang, bai luan ngan, bai đang tap chi, bai phe binh sach va bai bao. Trong phan lon đoi minh, ong hoan thanh cuon Tu đien tieng Anh-Trung sau khi mat 15 nam bien soan va tac pham tro thanh tu lieu tham khao chuan trong nhieu nam. Giles cung xuat ban cuon su đau tien ve van hoa va nghe thuat Trung Quoc đe lam tai lieu tham khao. Cac ban dich cua ong van co cho đung theo thoi gian va nay nam trong so nhung ban dich tot nhat. Giles khong ngai gay tranh cai va thang than trong nhieu chu đe. Trich loi chau chat cua ong: "Hau het nhung ke thu cua ong la tac gia nhung tac pham ma ong phe phan. Nhung nguoi đo gom E H Parker (nha Han hoc tai Đai hoc Manchester); Sir Walter Hillier (nha Han hoc tu Luan Đon) va Sir Thomas Wade - Su gia đen Trung Quoc (cac giai đoan 1870-76 va 1880-82) tuc cap tren cua Giles tai Lanh su quan. Sau đo Wade đuoc bo nhiem lam Giao su tieng Trung o Đai hoc Cambridge (1888-95). Giles ke nhiem ong ay giu vi tri nay vao nam 1897." Giles cung thang than neu quan điem ve cong viec cua cac nha truyen giao Co đoc va thuong nhan Anh vi co qua đong nguoi di cu Trung Quoc tren tau cua Anh. Nhu Charles Aylmer viet trong cuon hoi ky ve H. A. Giles: "Du noi tieng la nguoi cu xu tho lo, ong ay noi chuyen voi bat cu ai tren pho, tu Pho hieu truong đen nguoi quet pho, nen đuoc nguoi quen nho đen la mot nguoi co suc hut tuyet voi. " Giles chap but viet mot vai tac pham cung con trai la Tien si Lionel Giles - cung lam mot chuyen gia nghien cuu Trung Quoc va đuoc bo nhiem lam Pho giam đoc phu trach bao thao va sach in an phuong Đong o Bao tang Anh.
Nhung tac pham cua ong sau nay gom mot cuon su ve Nghe thuat bao anh Trung Quoc vao nam 1905 va bai giang Hibbert ve Nho giao - đuoc Williams and Norgate phat hanh vao nam 1915. Ong danh tang an ban thu ba cua cuon Lieu trai chi di (1916) cho bay đua chau cua minh, nhung đen cuoi đoi chi con than quen voi mot nguoi con con song. Khong chi la mot tin đo cua thuyet bat kha tri, ong con la thanh vien nhiet thanh cua Hoi Tam Điem. Ong chua bao gio lam thanh vien cua mot phan hieu nao o Đai hoc Cambridge, bat chap la giao su đai hoc trong 35 nam. Tien si Giles đa ket hon hai lan. Nguoi vo đau cua ong la Ba Catherine Maria Fenn, con nguoi vo thu la Ba Elise Williamina Edersheim (mat nam 1921). Khi ba mat, Giles viet: "Trong suot 38 nam ay, chang co chu nao tu ngoi but cua toi ma ba khong kiem tra va phe duyet truoc khi xuat ban ca". Ban than Elise la mot tac gia, tac pham noi tieng nhat cua ba la Truyen Bo bien Trung Quoc do ba sang tac luc o Đam Thuy (1885-1888) va đuoc ba xuat ban duoi but danh Lise Boehm. Ngay 4 thang 7 nam 1922, Hiep hoi Hoang gia chau A trao Huan chuong vang ba nam mot lan cho Giles. Nguoi ban L. C. Hopkins đuoc cho đa noi: "Neu ong ay đuoc yeu cau trinh bay mot cau ve dau an va cong lao đac biet trong cuoc đoi lien tuc lao đong cua Giao su Giles, ong se noi vuot tren toan bo cac hoc gia sinh thoi khac, ong đa nhan van hoa cac nghien cuu ve Trung Quoc. Bang nhung tac pham cua minh, ong đa lam cho đoc gia [phuong Tay] biet nhieu hon ve Trung Quoc - nhung thu vat chat va thiet yeu – ong đa truyen ba ve tri tue, nang luc va thanh tuu cua nguoi Trung Quoc mot cach tot hon va chan thuc hon bat ky hoc gia nao khac." Cuoi cung Giles nghi huu vao nam 1932 roi mat o Cambridge vao ngay 13 thang 12 nam 1935, tho 89 tuoi.


Di san Giles đa nhan đuoc giai Prix Julien tu Vien han lam Phap vao nam 1897 nho tac pham Tu đien nhan vat Trung Quoc. Cuon sach khong đuoc xem la đang tin cay trong gioi hoc thuat hien đai, theo mo ta sau cua Endymion Wilkinson:

Cuon sach đay nhung điem khong chinh xac va khau chon loc te hon nhieu so voi mong đoi. Mot phan ba so ngay thang bi sai vi Giles cho rang neu co nguoi bi ghep mat vao nam 1200, tho 63 tuoi thi anh/co ta  phai sinh vao nam 1137 (ma trong hau het truong hop, 1138 se la phuong an đung hon).

Mot cuon tu đien tieng Trung ra đoi gan đay cho rang tu đien cua Giles co "y nghia va quan tam đac biet", "the hien niem tu hao khi co cho đung trong lich su cac cuon tu đien song ngu Trung Quoc đe lam nguon tu lieu chinh thuc cho he thong phien am Wade-Giles." (Yong va Peng 2008: 387).
Nha Han hoc kiem su hoc nguoi Anh Endymion Wilkinson (2013: 85) cho rang tu đien cua Giles "van la mot kho tru tai lieu tieng Trung thu vi cuoi đoi nha Thanh, tuy nhien co rat it hoac khong co dau hieu ve cac chu thich, ma chu yeu lay tu Khang Hi tu đien)" (Wilkinson 2013: 85), Nam 1917, Giles đa tai tro cho giai thuong Prix Giles voi 800 đong franc. Voi đon vi quan ly la to chuc Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, đay la giai thuong đuoc trao hai nam mot lan cho ca nhan nguoi Phap la tac gia mot tac pham ve Trung Quoc, Nhat Ban hay ve Đong A noi chung.
Ban dich Lieu trai chi di cua Giles đa gay nhieu tranh cai tu gioi chuyen mon. John Minford va Tong Man mieu ta ban dich cua Herbert Giles la "gay soc", boi vi ong chon khong dich "bat cu thu gi lien quan đen tinh duc, sinh đe, mau, đoi khi la co the nguoi o bat ki khia canh nao" va thuong viet "dai la thuong đe che đay dau vet cua minh, the hien su kheo leo va tinh vi." O ban dich cua Giles, cac ho ly co mong muon tro chuyen va chia tra voi moi nguoi thay vi co quyen ru va quan he tinh duc; con nhung cap đoi cung lam chi la trao cho nhau nhung nu hon. Ho ghi chep rang "Giles lam theo chi thi phia tren ma khong can thac mac" vi ong buoc phai tuan theo quy tac đao đuc duoi thoi đai Victoria, đong thoi keu goi đoc gia "đung qua đat nang ban dich Lieu trai cua Giles." Ho noi them rang "an ban bo truyen cua Commercial Press (HK) đuoc luu hanh rong rai co nhieu đoan cat ghep gay soc tuong tu nhu Giles."
Minford va Tong Man cho biet rang đoc gia van tiep tuc đoc cac ban dich cua Giles, ngay ca khi chung "o muc nhieu nhat thi chi đuoc chap nhan mot cach mien cuong, thuong bi che gieu va bi coi la su bop meo theo kieu Phuong Đong..." Lydia Chiang mieu ta bai luan cua Minford va Tong Man "tai đanh gia thoi hau Said" khi so sanh ban dich cua Giles voi cach trinh bay truyen theo huong truyen thong va hien đai cua Trung Quoc.


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Giai thuong Duoi đay la danh sach huy hieu va giai thuong cua Giles:

Huan chuong Gia Hoa
Huan chuong vang cua Hiep hoi chau A hoang gia
Prix St. Julien cua Vien han lam Phap (hai lan)
Bang danh du tu Đai hoc Aberdeen (1897) va Đai hoc Oxford (1924)


Danh sach tac pham = Sach cua Herbert Giles =
Giles, Herbert Allen (1872). Chinese Without a Teacher. A. H. de Carvalho, Thuong Hai.
— (1873). A Dictionary of Colloquial Idioms in the Mandarin Dialect. A. H. De Carvalho, Thuong Hai.
— (1874). Synoptical Studies in the Chinese Character. Kelly & Company, Thuong Hai. [1] [2]
— (1876). Chinese Sketches. Trubner & Company,, London and Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai. Gutenberg.org: Full text
— (1877). Handbook of the Swatow Dialect: With a Vocabulary. [Published with the Assistance of the Straits' Government]. N.p., Shanghai.
— (1877). From Swatow to Canton: (Overland). Trubner, London and Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai.
— (1878). A Glossary of Reference, on Subjects Connected with the Far East. Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co., London, Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai, and Bernard Quaritich, New York.
— (1879). On Some Translations and Mistranslations in Dr. Williams' Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language. A.A. Marcal, Amoy.
— (1892). A Chinese-English Dictionary. Bernard Quaritch, London and Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai, Hongkong, Yokohama and Singapore. Volume 1
— (1892). A Chinese Biographical Dictionary (PDF). Bernard Quaritch, London and Kelly & Walsh, Limited, Shanghai and Yokohama. Volumes 1-2
— (1898). Chinese Poetry in English Verse. Bernard Quaritch, London and Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai.
— (1898). A Catalogue of the Wade Collection of Chinese and Manchu Books in the Library of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
— (1901). History of Chinese Literature, D. Appleton & Company, New York and London.  Wikipedia page: History of Chinese Literature
— (1901). Great Religions of the World, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London.
— (1901). Chinese Without a Teacher: Being a Collection of Easy and Useful Sentences in the Mandarin Dialect, with a Vocabulary. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, Shanghai.
— (1902). China and the Chinese. Columbia University Press, New York.
— (1905). An Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art, Bernard Quaritch, London
— (1906). Religions of Ancient China, Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., London (Religions: Ancient and Modern series)
— (1911). Chinese Fairy Tales. Gowans & Gray. Ltd., London and Glasgow.
— (1911).   The Civilization of China.
— (1912). China and the Manchus. Cambridge University Press. (The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature). Gutenberg.org: Full text
— (1915). Confucianism and Its Rivals: Lectures Delivered in the University Hall of Dr. William's Library, London, October-December 1914, London: Williams and Norgate, 1915 (The Hibbert Lectures: Second Series)
— (1919). How to Begin Chinese: The Hundred Best Characters. Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai; Bernard Quaritch, London.
— (1922). How to Begin Chinese: The Second Hundred Best Characters. Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai.
Revision of Bullock's Progressive Exercises (1922)
The Chinese and Their Food (Zhonghua Fanshi) (1947, Shanghai) (posthumous)
"The Memoirs of H.A. Giles," [3] Luu tru ngay 23 thang 9 nam 2015 tai Wayback Machine East Asian History 13 (1997): 1–90. Dated 1925.


= Ban dich cua Herbert Giles =
Faxian, Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms, Trubner & Co., Luan Đon va Kelly & Walsh, Thuong Hai, 1877
Gems of Chinese Literature, 1883; an ban thu: Thuong Hai, Kelly & Walsh, 1922
The Remains of Lao Tzu, 1886
Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer, Bernard Quaritich, 1889
Vuong Ung Lan, Elementary Chinese: San Tzu Ching, Thuong Hai: Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ld., 1900
Bo Tung LInh, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Thuong Hai, etc.: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1916
Chinese Fairy Tales, tai ban nam 1920 tu an ban đau vao nam 1911. Wikisource: Full text


= Sach lien quan đen Herbert Giles =
Launcelot Cranmer-Byng (1902). The Never-Ending Wrong: and Other Renderings of the Chinese from the Prose Translations of Herbert A. Giles. Grant Richards.


Chu thich Nguon tu lieu Cooley, James C., Jr. T.F. Wade in China: Pioneer in Global Diplomacy 1842–1882. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1981.
Minford, John; Tong, Man (1999), "Whose Strange Stories? P'u Sung-ling (1640-1715), Herbert Giles (1845-1935), and the Liao-chai chih-i" (PDF), East Asian History, 17/18, Ban goc (PDF) luu tru ngay 13 thang 1 nam 2024, truy cap ngay 13 thang 1 nam 2024
Lydia Sing-Chen, Chiang (2005). Collecting The Self: Body And Identity In Strange Tale Collections Of Late Imperial China (bang tieng Anh). Quyen tap 67. Brill. ISBN 9004142037.
Giles, Herbert, Edited and with an Introduction by Charles Aylmer, "The Memoirs of H.A. Giles, The," East Asian History.13 (1997): 1–90. [4] Luu tru ngay 23 thang 9 nam 2015 tai Wayback Machine


Lien ket ngoai Cac tac pham cua Herbert Giles tai Du an Gutenberg
Tac pham cua Herbert Giles tren  LibriVox (sach audio thuoc pham vi cong cong) 
Images of Herbert Giles and Family
Access to Giles' Chinese-English Dictionary Luu tru ngay 8 thang 8 nam 2016 tai Wayback Machine