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Herbert Allen Giles

Born

in Oxford, The United Kingdom

December 08, 1845

Died

February 13, 1935

Genre

History, Nonfiction

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Educated at Charterhouse, Herbert Allen Giles was a British diplomat and author of books on China and the Far East. He served as British Vice-consul at Pagoda Island from 1880 to 1883 and at Shanghai from 1883 to 1885. He then became Consul at Tamsui in 1885 and in 1891 at Ningpo. He taught Chinese at Cambridge and, in 1902, became a senior lecturer at Columbia University. His works include Chinese Sketches (1876), Historic China (1882), The Remains of Lao Tzu (1886), China and the Chinese (1902), The Civilization of China (1911), Confucianism and Its Rivals (1915) and The Second Hundred Best Characters (1922).

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Average rating: 3.68 · 786 ratings · 108 reviews · 350 distinct works • Similar authors

	China and the Chinese 3.51 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1902 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Religions Of Ancient China 3.12 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1906 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Civilization of China 3.54 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2000 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China and the Manchus 3.47 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2000 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Historic China And Other Sketches really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2000 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gems Of Chinese Literature 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1965 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Chinese Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1901 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chinese Sketches 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1876 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chuang Tzu, Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer by Herbert Allen Giles, Zhuangzi 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2015 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chinese Poetry in English Verse 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The flowers and the birds do not toil, they simply live. That is TAO. And for man a state of indifference and calm, the ἀταραξία not of the sceptic but of the mystic, a passive reflecting of the Eternal, is the ideal end. “The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing, it refuses nothing. It receives but does not keep. And thus he can triumph over matter without injury to himself”.”
― Herbert A Giles, The Book of Chuang Tzu

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“To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.”
― Herbert Allen Giles, China and the Chinese

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“Put yourself behind, and the world will put you in front; put yourself in front, and the world will put you behind.”
― Herbert Allen Giles, China and the Chinese

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