| China and the Manchus (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Giles, Herbert Allen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1406544566 ISBN-13: 9781406544565 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $11.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist, educated at Charterhouse. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system established by Thomas Wade earlier, resulting in the Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. He was a diplomat to China (1867 - 1892). He was British Vice Consul at Pagoda Island (1880-83) and Shanghai (1883-85) and Consul at Tamsui (1885-91) and at Ningpo (1891-93) who later became the second professor of Chinese at Cambridge, succeeding Wade, after living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Postal map spelling is also based on the Wade-Giles system described in his A Chinese-English Dictionary. Amongst his other works are Chinese Sketches (1882), China and the Chinese (1902), Religions of Ancient China (1905), The Civilization of China (1911) and China and the Manchus (1912). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 951 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6" W x 9" (0.30 lbs) 84 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |