Friday, April 1, 2011

Herbert Giles

Herbert Giles

Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 1845 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist, educated at Charterhouse. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system earlier established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. Among his prolific works were translations of Confucius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, and the first widely published Chinese-English dictionary.



[China And The Chinese | China And The Manchus | Chinese Sketches | Religions Of Ancient China | The Civilization Of China]


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