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Giles, Herbert Allen 1845-1935

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Works: 356 works in 1,112 publications in 11 languages and 11,013 library holdings
Genres: Biography 
Roles: Translator, Editor, Compiler, Author of introduction, Adapter
Classifications: bl1900.c5, 895.109
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65 editions published between and 9999 in English and Undetermined and held by 982 libraries worldwide
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60 editions published between and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 745 libraries worldwide
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36 editions published between and 1965 in English and held by 689 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 547 libraries worldwide
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36 editions published between and 2011 in English and Japanese and held by 497 libraries worldwide
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, Chuang Tzu, Lao Tzu, and the first widely published Chinese-English dictionary.-- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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35 editions published between and 2010 in English and German and held by 486 libraries worldwide
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32 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 485 libraries worldwide
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51 editions published between and 1983 in 4 languages and held by 364 libraries worldwide
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38 editions published between and 9999 in 3 languages and held by 318 libraries worldwide
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14 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 298 libraries worldwide
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25 editions published between and 9999 in English and held by 296 libraries worldwide
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University's second professor of Chinese. His published works cover Chinese language and literature, history and philosophy. This series of lectures, published as "China and the Chinese", was given at Columbia University in 1902, to mark the establishment of a Chinese professorship there. The lectures were not intended for the specialist, more to urge a wider and more systematic study of China and its culture, and to encourage new students into the field. While many of the observations are just as relevant today, others will remind us how much China has changed since the period of the Manchu Qing dynasty in which he wrote.
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31 editions published between and 1981 in English and held by 290 libraries worldwide
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28 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 272 libraries worldwide
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12 editions published between and 1965 in English and held by 203 libraries worldwide
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20 editions published between and 1918 in English and Chinese and held by 187 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published between and 1939 in English and held by 144 libraries worldwide
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17 editions published between and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 105 libraries worldwide
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11 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 101 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published in in English and held by 88 libraries worldwide
 
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A history of Chinese literature
Alternative Names
Gilen, Herbert Allen 1845-1935
Giles, H. A.
Giles, H. A. 1845-1935
Giles, H. A. (Herbert Allen), 1845-1935
Giles, Herbert A.
Giles, Herbert A. 1845-1935
Giles, Herbert Allen
Giles, Herbert Allen 1845-1935
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