Religions of Ancient China (Esprios Classics)

Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 1845 - 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at Cambridge University for 35 years. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British diplomat in China. He modified a Mandarin Chinese romanisation system established by Thomas Wade resulting in the widely known Wade-Giles Chinese romanisation system. Among his many works were translations of the Analects of Confucius the Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching) the Chuang Tzu and in 1892 the widely published A Chinese-English Dictionary.