Author:Herbert Allen Giles

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Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935)

a British diplomat and sinologist. This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "H. A. Gi"

Works

• A Chinese Biographical Dictionary (1898)
• A History of Chinese Literature (1901)
• China and the Chinese (1902)
• Religions of Ancient China (1906)
• The Civilization of China (1911)
• China and the Manchus (1912)
• Confucianism and Its Rivals, 1915[1]

Contribution to EB1911

• “China” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (Language, Literature and Religion)

Transcription projects

• A History of Chinese Literature (1901)
• Index:Elementary_Chinese_-_San_Tzu_Ching_(1900).djvu
• Index:Chinese_without_a_teacher_-_being_a_collection_of_easy_and_useful_sentences.djvu

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1935, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.