Herbertus Allen Giles

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**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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