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 (Paginae selectae editionis 2000 apud Google Books)
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^{[nexus deficit]}
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)^{[nexus deficit]}" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edd. H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2004) Situs venalis

Nexus externi

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Documenta H. A. Giles apud bibliothecam Universitatis Californiensis (Angelopolis)
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