Lionel Giles
Biographic Data
| ID | 509091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lionel Giles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lionel |
| FAMILY NAME | Giles |
| SIGNATURE | GILES L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1912 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A arte da guerra
The art of war
Arte da Guerra
Descriptive Catalogue of The Chinese Manuscripts From Tun-huang in The British Museum
Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tunhuang in the British Museum
Der Jesuiten-Atlas der Kanghsi-Zeit
Der Jesuiten-Atlas der Kanghsi-Zeit: seine Entstehungsgeschichte Nebst Namensindices für die Karten der Mandjurei, Mongolei, Ostturkestan und Tibet. Mit Wiedergabe der Jesuiten-Karten in Originalgrösse. Von Walter Fuchs. (Monumenta Serica. Monograph Series, IV.) pp. iii, 414, 1 plate, 35 maps. Peking: Fu-Jen-Universität, 1943. $18. - Volume 12 Issue 2
Dated Chinese Manuscripts in the Stein Collection
This century is cut in two by the fateful rebellion of An Lu-shan. The first half was a period of halcyon peace and prosperity, hardly affected by the Palace intrigues and massacres that followed the abdication of the Empress Wu. The long reign of the Emperor Ming Huang has some claim to be regarded as the Golden Age of China; for the magnificence of the Court was solidly based on the well-being of the people, and while trade and commerce nourish…
Dated Chinese Manuscripts in the Stein Collection
This century is cut in two by the fateful rebellion of An Lu-shan. The first half was a period of halcyon peace and prosperity, hardly affected by the Palace intrigues and massacres that followed the abdication of the Empress Wu. The long reign of the Emperor Ming Huang has some claim to be regarded as the Golden Age of China; for the magnificence of the Court was solidly based on the well-being of the people, and while trade and commerce nourish…
Harvard-Yenching Institute
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A Topographical Fragment from Tunhuang
The manuscript numbered S. 788 in the Stein Collection at the British Museum is a fragment, only about a foot square, containing on one side of the paper part of two ballads descriptive of fighting in the frontier regions, the second of which is entitled "the Ballad of Yen,". Both the writing and the paper point to a date in the late ninth or beginning of the tenth century
Sinological Studies
The following notice appeared in the Deutsche Wacht , published in Batavia, and has been sent to me by the writer, Herr E. von Zach. Feeling that, in justice to Dr. Edwards, it should be made accessible to readers of the Bulletin , I have translated it from the German and added a few further remarks of my own:— Arthur Waley, in his Pillow-book of Sei Shōnagon (1928), was the first to draw attention to the Tsa tsuan of Li Shang–yin; and Miss E. D:…
A Chinese Geographical Text of the Ninth Century
The Stein Collection of MSS. from Tun-huang at the British Museum, so rich in other respects, includes very few documents of a purely topographical nature. The two most interesting texts belonging to this class are the Tun huang lu (S. 5448), which was published with translation and notes in the JRAS. for July, 1914, and the present roll (S. 367), which is unfortunately imperfect at the beginning and lacks a title. The Tun huang lu deals with the…
Notes on the Miscellanea of I-Shan
All students of Chinese must be grateful to Miss Edwards for introducing them to this quaint and little-known work of the poet Li Shang-yin (see Bull. S.O.S ., vol. v, pp. 757–85). Not only has she given a vigorous and idiomatic rendering of the sayings, but she has also had the courage to include the Chinese text, transcribed from the T‘ang tai ts‘ung shu , a work which is not likely to be in every reader's library. I cannot agree, however, with…
Correspondance
The Lament On the Lady of Ch'in
THE LAMENT ON THE LADY OF CH'IN BY LIONEL GILES. Early in 1919, when making a preliminary survey of the Stein Collection of Chinese manuscripts in the British Museum, I came across a small booklet consisting of nine leaves, and measuring 14.5 10.5 cm., which Sir Aurel Stein's native assistant had la- belled t;i "Booh of Plays in one volume". I soon saw that the contents did not corrcspond to this hastily written description, and on copying out th…
Chinese Printing in the Tenth Century
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Two Parallel Anecdotes in Greek and Chinese
THE OPEN COURT ” of March, 1912 (pp. 155 seq.), contains an account by Dr. B. Laufer of an ancient bronze mirror, half of which was found some thirty years ago in Siberia. On the back was a figure of Confucius, with the inscription
Notes on the Nestobian Monument at Sianfu
Raban] consulted the omens in the sky and carried with him the true Scriptures; he observed the winds in their relation to the musical tubes, and quickly passed through difficulties and dangers.’ being defined in the dictionaiy as the plain sense of the passage is that Raban tried to forecast the weather by means of divination before starting on his journey; our translators, however, probably because they had an uneasy feeling that this was not q…
Translations from the Chinese World Map of Father Ricci (Continued)
Notes on the Nestorian Monument at Sianfu
is used here as in Taoist phraseology, to indicate spiritual purity of nature, and cannot very well be translated “true” or “genuine” ( ), as Diaz takes it, followed by Legge and Saeki. A better definition is that formulated by Diaz himself when he comes to explain the word , namely: . We may observe in passing that the whole of this exordium strongly recalls the language of the Tao Tê Ching , especially in chapters 4 and 25. Nearly all that is s…
Translations from the Chinese World Map of Father Ricci
Christians At Ghên-Chiang Fu
A Census of Tun-Huang
The following fragment, No. 922 of the Stein Collection of Chinese MSS. in the British Museum, contains part of an officials census of Tun-huang chun taken in the year 416 A.D. It is thus almost exactly 1500 years old, and would be worth publishing on account of its antiquity alone, apart from the interesting questions relating to Chinese census records in general which are suggested by it. The year 416 was the last but one of the reign, of Li Ka…
IV The Tun Huang Lu Re-Translated
I feel very grateful to Mr. Suh Hu. for having read my article with such care, and for having pointed out some undoubted mistakes. Unfortunately, there are others that have escaped him, but which have been brought to my notice by my father, Professor Herbert A. Giles, and other scholars, to whom I also tender hearty thanks. In the light of these corrections it seems desirable that a revised translation of the whole text should now be published
Admonitions of the Instructress in the Palace. A painting by Ku K'ai-chih in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, reproduced in coloured woodcut. Text by Laurence Binyon
Admonitions of the Instructress in the Palace. A painting by Ku K'ai-chih in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, reproduced in coloured woodcut. Text by Laurence Binyon. - Volume 46 Issue 1
Taoist teachings from the book of Lieh Tzǔ
THE object of the Editors of this series is a very definite one.They desire above all things that, in their humble way, these books shall be the ambassadors of good-will and understanding between East and West-the old world of Thought and the new of Action.In this endeavour, and in their own sphere, they are but followers of the highest example in the land.They are confident that a deeper knowledge of the great ideals and lofty philosophy of Orie…
Translated From the Chinese
The following biography of Ch'iu Chin, the Chinese national heroine, is taken from an edition of her poems published in 1910, three years after her death. It forms a page of history which at present is practically unknown to Europe, but which, in consequence of the revolution of 1911, is likely to be studied with increasing care as the years go by. The postscript to the work has also been translated, as containing certain facts of bibliographical…
Admonitions of the Instructress in the Palace. A painting by Ku K'ai-chih in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, reproduced in coloured woodcut. Text by Laurence Binyon
Admonitions of the Instructress in the Palace. A painting by Ku K'ai-chih in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, reproduced in coloured woodcut. Text by Laurence Binyon. - Volume 46 Issue 1
XXII. Tun Huang Lu
The low ebb of sinological studies in this country is all too clearly indicated by the fact that the present text is actually the first to be published out of the enormous mass of Chinese manuscripts brought home by Sir Aurel Stein tive years ago. It is not altogether unbefitting, however, that the place of honour should be accorded to a brochure giving some account of the Tunhuang district, and including a description of the famous grottos where…
Christians At Ghên-Chiang Fu
A Census of Tun-Huang
The following fragment, No. 922 of the Stein Collection of Chinese MSS. in the British Museum, contains part of an officials census of Tun-huang chun taken in the year 416 A.D. It is thus almost exactly 1500 years old, and would be worth publishing on account of its antiquity alone, apart from the interesting questions relating to Chinese census records in general which are suggested by it. The year 416 was the last but one of the reign, of Li Ka…
IV The Tun Huang Lu Re-Translated
I feel very grateful to Mr. Suh Hu. for having read my article with such care, and for having pointed out some undoubted mistakes. Unfortunately, there are others that have escaped him, but which have been brought to my notice by my father, Professor Herbert A. Giles, and other scholars, to whom I also tender hearty thanks. In the light of these corrections it seems desirable that a revised translation of the whole text should now be published
Notes on the Nestorian Monument at Sianfu
is used here as in Taoist phraseology, to indicate spiritual purity of nature, and cannot very well be translated “true” or “genuine” ( ), as Diaz takes it, followed by Legge and Saeki. A better definition is that formulated by Diaz himself when he comes to explain the word , namely: . We may observe in passing that the whole of this exordium strongly recalls the language of the Tao Tê Ching , especially in chapters 4 and 25. Nearly all that is s…
Translations from the Chinese World Map of Father Ricci
Translations from the Chinese World Map of Father Ricci (Continued)
Notes on the Nestobian Monument at Sianfu
Raban] consulted the omens in the sky and carried with him the true Scriptures; he observed the winds in their relation to the musical tubes, and quickly passed through difficulties and dangers.’ being defined in the dictionaiy as the plain sense of the passage is that Raban tried to forecast the weather by means of divination before starting on his journey; our translators, however, probably because they had an uneasy feeling that this was not q…
Two Parallel Anecdotes in Greek and Chinese
THE OPEN COURT ” of March, 1912 (pp. 155 seq.), contains an account by Dr. B. Laufer of an ancient bronze mirror, half of which was found some thirty years ago in Siberia. On the back was a figure of Confucius, with the inscription
The Lament On the Lady of Ch'in
THE LAMENT ON THE LADY OF CH'IN BY LIONEL GILES. Early in 1919, when making a preliminary survey of the Stein Collection of Chinese manuscripts in the British Museum, I came across a small booklet consisting of nine leaves, and measuring 14.5 10.5 cm., which Sir Aurel Stein's native assistant had la- belled t;i "Booh of Plays in one volume". I soon saw that the contents did not corrcspond to this hastily written description, and on copying out th…
Chinese Printing in the Tenth Century
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Correspondance
Notes on the Miscellanea of I-Shan
All students of Chinese must be grateful to Miss Edwards for introducing them to this quaint and little-known work of the poet Li Shang-yin (see Bull. S.O.S ., vol. v, pp. 757–85). Not only has she given a vigorous and idiomatic rendering of the sayings, but she has also had the courage to include the Chinese text, transcribed from the T‘ang tai ts‘ung shu , a work which is not likely to be in every reader's library. I cannot agree, however, with…
Sinological Studies
The following notice appeared in the Deutsche Wacht , published in Batavia, and has been sent to me by the writer, Herr E. von Zach. Feeling that, in justice to Dr. Edwards, it should be made accessible to readers of the Bulletin , I have translated it from the German and added a few further remarks of my own:— Arthur Waley, in his Pillow-book of Sei Shōnagon (1928), was the first to draw attention to the Tsa tsuan of Li Shang–yin; and Miss E. D:…
A Chinese Geographical Text of the Ninth Century
The Stein Collection of MSS. from Tun-huang at the British Museum, so rich in other respects, includes very few documents of a purely topographical nature. The two most interesting texts belonging to this class are the Tun huang lu (S. 5448), which was published with translation and notes in the JRAS. for July, 1914, and the present roll (S. 367), which is unfortunately imperfect at the beginning and lacks a title. The Tun huang lu deals with the…
Harvard-Yenching Institute
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Topographical Fragment from Tunhuang
The manuscript numbered S. 788 in the Stein Collection at the British Museum is a fragment, only about a foot square, containing on one side of the paper part of two ballads descriptive of fighting in the frontier regions, the second of which is entitled "the Ballad of Yen,". Both the writing and the paper point to a date in the late ninth or beginning of the tenth century
Dated Chinese Manuscripts in the Stein Collection
This century is cut in two by the fateful rebellion of An Lu-shan. The first half was a period of halcyon peace and prosperity, hardly affected by the Palace intrigues and massacres that followed the abdication of the Empress Wu. The long reign of the Emperor Ming Huang has some claim to be regarded as the Golden Age of China; for the magnificence of the Court was solidly based on the well-being of the people, and while trade and commerce nourish…
Dated Chinese Manuscripts in the Stein Collection
This century is cut in two by the fateful rebellion of An Lu-shan. The first half was a period of halcyon peace and prosperity, hardly affected by the Palace intrigues and massacres that followed the abdication of the Empress Wu. The long reign of the Emperor Ming Huang has some claim to be regarded as the Golden Age of China; for the magnificence of the Court was solidly based on the well-being of the people, and while trade and commerce nourish…
Der Jesuiten-Atlas der Kanghsi-Zeit
Der Jesuiten-Atlas der Kanghsi-Zeit: seine Entstehungsgeschichte Nebst Namensindices für die Karten der Mandjurei, Mongolei, Ostturkestan und Tibet. Mit Wiedergabe der Jesuiten-Karten in Originalgrösse. Von Walter Fuchs. (Monumenta Serica. Monograph Series, IV.) pp. iii, 414, 1 plate, 35 maps. Peking: Fu-Jen-Universität, 1943. $18. - Volume 12 Issue 2
Descriptive Catalogue of The Chinese Manuscripts From Tun-huang in The British Museum
Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tunhuang in the British Museum
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