Herbert Allen Giles
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[English] Herbert Allen Giles (b. 1845 in Oxford; d. 1935 in Cambridge) was a British diplomat and sinologist. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system earlier established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. [Deutsch] Herbert Allen Giles (geb. 1845 in Oxford; gest. 1935 in Cambridge) war ein britischer Diplomat und Sinologe. Er modifizierte das von Thomas Wade etablierte System zur Romanisierung von Mandarin-Chinesisch, wodurch das bekannte Wade-Giles Chinesisch-Transliterationssystem entstand.
Books
The Civilization of China
From the book: It is a very common thing now-a-days to meet people who are going to "China," which can be reached by the Siberian railway in fourteen or fifteen days. This brings us at once to the question - What is meant by the term China? Taken in its widest sense, the term includes Mongolia, Manchuria, Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, and the Eighteen Provinces, the whole being equivalent to an area of some five million square miles, that is, considerably more than twice the size of the United States of America. But for a study of manners and customs and modes of thought of the Chinese people, we must confine ourselves to that portion of the whole which is known to the Chinese as the "Eighteen Provinces," and to us as China Proper. This portion of the empire occupies not quite two-fifths of the whole, covering an area of somewhat more than a million and a half square miles. Its chief landmarks may be roughly stated as Peking, the capital, in the north; Canton, the great commercial centre, in the south; Shanghai, on the east; and the Tibetan frontier on the west.
Chinese fairy tales
Tales selected and adapted from The Chinese fairy book, published in 1921.