Herbertus Allen Giles

Herbert Allen Giles (natus 8 Decembris 1845 – mortuus 13 Februarii 1935) fuit legatus Britannorum iuxta Imperium Sinense, Sinologus et professor linguae Sinicae in  universitate Cantabrigiensi. Educatus est apud scholam Carthusianam. Systema transcriptionis litterarum Sinensium ad scripturam Latinam, a Thoma Wade inventum, refecit. Systema ita emendatum Wade–Giles appellatur. Anglice reddidit opera Confucii, Laocii et Zhuangzi. Anno 1892 primus ille dictionarium late divulgatum Sino-Anglicum confecit.

 Opera 

 1872 (interpres, cum J. A. Giles) : Cicero on the nature of the gods: construed literally and word for word
 1873 (interpres, cum J. A. Giles) : Longinus on the sublime: construed literally and word for word, with a free paraphrase Textus
 1873 : A Dictionary of Colloquial Idioms in the Mandarin Dialect Textus
 1874 : Synoptical studies in the Chinese character Textus
 1876 : Chinese sketches Textus
 1877 : Handbook of the Swatow dialect, with a vocabulary
 1877 (interpres) : Record of the Buddhistic kingdoms Textus
 1877 : From Swatow to Canton (Overland) Textus
 1878 : A glossary of reference on subjects connected with the Far East Textus
 1878 (interpres) : Strange stories from a Chinese studio. 2 voll. Vol. 1 Vol. 2  3a ed.
 1878 : A Short History of Koolangsu Textus
 1879 : On some translations and mistranslations in Dr. Williams' Syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language Textus
 1879 : Arcana Saitica briefly discussed in three essays on the masonic tracing boards Textus
 1880 : Freemasonry in China 
 1882 : Historic China, and other sketches Textus
 1884 : Gems of Chinese literature (Editio recensa, 1922) Textus Editio recensa
 1889 (interpres) : Chuang-Tzŭ : mystic, moralist, and social reformer Textus
 1892 : Chinese-English dictionary. 3 voll.
 1892 : Chinese without a teacher Editio 1901 Editio 1922
 1898 : A Catalogue of the Wade Collection of Chinese and Manchu Books in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press Textus apud archive.org
 1898 : A Chinese biographical dictionary Textus alius
 1898 (interpres): Chinese poetry in English verse Textus
 1900 (editor et interpres) : Elementary Chinese: San tzŭ ching Textus
 1900 : "Confucianism in the nineteenth century" in North American Review vol. 171 (1900) pp. 359-374; commentatio reimpressa in H. A. Giles et al., Great religions of the world (1901) JSTOR Editio 1901
 1902 : China and the Chinese Textus
 1902 (interpres, cum L. Cranmer-Byng) : The never-ending wrong, and other renderings of the Chinese Textus
 1905-1915 : Adversaria Sinica No. 2, 3, 5; no. 1-6 reimpressi; ser. 2 no. 1
 1905 : An introduction to the history of Chinese pictorial art Textus
 1905 : Religions of ancient China Textus
 1906 : Musings of a Chinese mystic: selections from the philosophy of Chuang Tzŭ Textus
 1911 : Chinese fairy tales Textus
 1911 : The civilization of China Textus
 1912 : China and the Manchus Textus
 1915 : Confucianism and its rivals: lectures delivered in the University Hall of Dr. Williams's Library, London Textus
 1915 : Supplementary Catalogue of the Wade Collection of Chinese and Manchu Books in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press Textus apud archive.org
 1919 : How to begin Chinese; the hundred best characters
 1923 : Some truths about opium Textus
 1924 : Chaos in China
 1925 (interpres) : Quips from a Chinese jest-book Textus
 1933 :A history of Chinese literature Textus
 1934 (interpres, cum Arthur Waley) : Select Chinese verses
 1997 (Charles Aylmer, ed.) : "The Memoirs of H.A. Giles" in East Asian History vol. 13  (1997) pp. 1–90

 Bibliographia 
 P. D. Coates, The China Consuls: British consular officers, 1843–1943. Hongcongi: Oxford University Press, 1988
 J. C. Ferguson, "Dr Giles at 80" in China Journal of Science and Arts vol. 4 no. 1 (1926)
 Shang-Ling Fu, "One Generation of Chinese Studies at Cambridge" in Chinese Social and Political Science Review vol. 15 (1931–2) pp. 78–91
 P. R. Marshall, "H. A. Giles and E. H. Parker: Clio's English servants in late nineteenth-century China" in The Historian vol. 46 (1983–4) pp. 520–38
 A. C. Moule, "Herbert Allen Giles" in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1935) pp. 577–9 JSTOR
 D. E. Pollard, "H. A. Giles and his Translations" in Renditions no. 40 (Aut. 1993)
 Janette Ryan, "Giles, Herbert Allen (1845–1935)" in 

 Nexus externi 

 Documenta H. A. Giles apud bibliothecam Universitatis Californiensis (Angelopolis)
 Miscellanea utilia apud The Kings Candlesticks: Family Tree's

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