Dictionary. Herbert Allen Giles was the fourth son of John Allen Giles (1808–1884), an Anglican clergyman. After studying at Charterhouse, Herbert became a...

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these cities. A Chinese-English Dictionary by Herbert Giles, published in 1892, popularized the Wade–Giles method of transliteration. This system had been...

Confucius. Giles was the son of British diplomat and sinologist Herbert Giles. Giles was born in Sutton, the fourth son of Herbert Giles and his first...

modified by Herbert Giles (Giles succeeded Wade as professor of Chinese at Cambridge University), into the "Wade system as modified by Giles": the system...

most widely read historical novel in late imperial and modern China. Herbert Giles stated that among the Chinese themselves, this is regarded as the greatest...

completed by Herbert Giles in 1900 and revised in 1910. The translation was based on the original Song dynasty version.[citation needed] Giles had published...

consular officer and sinologist Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), is the first Chinese–English encyclopedic dictionary. Giles started compilation after being...

sound by Thomas Wade (and others) in the Wade–Giles system of romanization for Mandarin Chinese. Herbert Giles and others have used a left (opening) curved...

Austrian writer Herbert Gelernter (1930–2015), American scientist Herbert Giles (1845–1935), British diplomat and translator Herbert Gold (1924–2023)...

translated into English as "The Painted Skin" by the British sinologist Herbert A. Giles and was included in his 1880 translation of Strange Tales. It reappeared...

The Prix Giles (also known as the Prix Hérbert Allen Giles) is awarded biennially for a work related to China, Japan or East Asia that was published in...

of proposed schemes. The Wade–Giles system was produced by Thomas Wade in 1859, and further improved by Herbert Giles, presented in Chinese–English Dictionary...

Iwakichi acknowledged this. In 1912, British diplomat and sinologist Herbert Giles stated in China and the Manchus that "'Manchuria' is unknown to the...

wrote that "Giles was a creature of his time" since he was required to follow Victorian Era morality, and urged readers to "not get Giles' bowdlerising...

considered exceptional. According to A History of Chinese Literature by Herbert Giles, Han Yu "wrote a large quantity of verse, frequently playful, on an...

second-most common romanization system, the Wade–Giles, was invented by Thomas Wade in 1859 and modified by Herbert Giles in 1892. As this system approximates the...

of Qin." Pub. Chinese University of Hong Kong (1993), pp. 23-24 [2] Herbert Giles, Chinese Biographical Dictionary on Shang Yang (Wei Yang) [3] National...

retirement, this first establishment was renewed once for the tenure of Herbert Giles, but was then suppressed. A new chair, the Professorship of Chinese...

of Chinese Literature is a history of Chinese literature written by Herbert Giles and published in 1901. Although there had been surveys of Chinese literature...

between the Chinese and the British at the time, the English sinologist Herbert Giles praised and admired Lin: "He was a fine scholar, a just and merciful...

Look up Giles in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The surname Giles or Gyles comes from the given name Giles. Bearers of this surname derive from the original...

18 February 1662, the first day of the following lunar year. Sinologist Herbert Giles, drawing on contemporary sources, described the Kangxi Emperor as "fairly...

Chinese medicine. Ruyi were both emblems of power and tools of discourse. Herbert Giles (1912:185) quoted the Song dynasty archaeologist Zhao Xigu (Chinese:...

the failure of national socialism and Germany's comprehensive defeat. Herbert Giles (1889), Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist and Social Reformer, London: Bernard...

British diplomat Thomas Wade, revised and improved by Herbert Giles into the (1892) Wade–Giles (威翟式拼音; wēidíshì pīnyīn) system. Apart from the correction...

Hundun (Chinese: 混沌; pinyin: Hùndùn; Wade–Giles: Hun4-tun4; lit. 'muddled confusion') is both a "legendary faceless being" in Chinese mythology and the...

extensive allegorical traditions associated with the Odes were theorized by Herbert Giles to have begun in the Warring States period as a justification for Confucius'...

the novel, saying that Chinese read it "because of its wickedness." Herbert Giles, whom John Minford called "one of the more free-thinking British consular...

text related to this article: 琵琶行 Wikisource has original text related to this article: "The Lute-Girl’s Lament" English Translation by Herbert Giles...