Herbert Allen Giles

Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist, educated at Charterhouse. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system established by Thomas Wade earlier, resulting in the Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. He was a diplomat to China (1867 - 1892). He was British Vice Consul at Pagoda Island (1880-83) and Shanghai (1883-85) and Consul at Tamsui (1885-91) and at Ningpo (1891-93) who later became the second professor of Chinese at Cambridge, succeeding Wade, after living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Postal map spelling is also based on the Wade-Giles system described in his A Chinese-English Dictionary. Amongst his other works are Chinese Sketches (1882), China and the Chinese (1902), Religions of Ancient China (1905), The Civilization of China (1911) and China and the Manchus (1912).

Religions of Ancient China

A Chinese-English Dictionary

With a Vocabulary

Handbook of the Swatow Dialect

Gems of Chinese Literature

Cambridge University Library

A Catalogue of the Wade Collection of Chinese and Manchu Books in the Library of the University of Cambridge

Chinese Poetry in English Verse

A Chinese Biographical Dictionary

Cyril Scott

Composed for Voice & Pianoforte : Opus 62

A Lost Love

A History of Chinese Literature

Zhuangzi

Generally regarded as one of the foremost works of philosophy in any language, this important book by a brilliant Chinese philosopher and one of Taoism's founding fathers has exerted a profound influence on Chinese thought and led to the development of Zen Buddhism. This new edition contains a number of the most relevant and accessible selections from that great classic.

Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu

Chinese Sketches - The Institutions of a despised people cannot be judged with fairness is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The Institutions of a Despised People Cannot be Judged with Fairness

Chinese Sketches

Herbert Allen Giles

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