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Herbert Allen Giles
Chinese Without a Teacher - being a collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin dialect, with a vocabulary. Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original…
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This classic work, first published in 1911, provides a comprehensive overview of Chinese civilization. It covers everything from Chinese language and literature to government, religion, and the arts. The author…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
This book provides a detailed exploration of the Masonic tracing boards, a key component of the Masonic tradition. Through insightful essays and expert analysis, author Herbert Allen Giles sheds light…
This book is an analysis of the Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language, written by Dr. Samuel Wells Williams. The author examines many of the translations and mistranslations in the…
Chuang Tzu - Mystic, Moralist and Social Reformer is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such…
This collection explores monetary institutions linking Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Synoptical Studies in Chinese Character is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and…
The Manchus are descended from a branch of certain wild Tungusic nomads, who were known in the ninth century as the Nu-chens, a name which has been said to mean…
It is a very common thing now-a-days to meet people who are going to China, which can be reached by the Siberian railway in fourteen or fifteen days. This brings…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
""From Swatow to Canton"" is a travelogue written by Herbert Allen Giles in 1877. The book describes his journey from Swatow to Canton, two major ports in southern China. Giles…
Herbert A. Giles, professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge and late H.B.M. Consul at Ningpu, compiles this early history of Chinese literature in 1901. This is a facsimile…
The following Lectures were delivered during at Columbia University, in the city of New York, to inaugurate the foundation by General Horace W. Carpentier of the Dean Lung Chair of…
Chinese Without a teacher is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1872. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science…
