Herbert Allen Giles

8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935.

[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.

• 聊齋誌異
• Chinese Sketches
• A Chinese-English dictionary
• A History of Chinese Literature
• An introduction to the history of Chinese pictorial art
• China and the Chinese
• Gems of Chinese literature
• Religions of ancient China
• Religions of Ancient China
• The Civilization of China
• A history of Chinese literature. by Herbert A. Giles
• Religions of Ancient China