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Herbert Allen Giles est un diplomate et sinologue britannique. Il modifia la romanisation du chinois développé par Thomas Francis Wade, ce qui produisit le système Wade-Giles, très utilisé avant l'arrivée du Hanyu Pinyin dans les années 1950, principalement dans le monde anglo-saxon.

Ses nombreuses œuvres comprennent des traductions des Entretiens de Confucius, du Tao Tö King, du Zuangzi de Tchouang-tseu et, en 1892, le premier dictionnaire chinois-anglais de grande diffusion. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. décembre 1845 – 13. février 1935
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Herbert Giles: Citations en anglais

“p>Dear Land of Flowers, forgive me!—that I took
These snatches from thy glittering wealth of song,
And twisted to the uses of a book
Strains that to alien harps can ne'er belong.Thy gems shine purer in their native bed
Concealed, beyond the pry of vulgar eyes;
And there, through labyrinths of language led,
The patient student grasps the glowing prize.Yet many, in their race toward other goals,
May joy to feel, albeit at second-hand,
Some far faint heart-throb of poetic souls
Whose breath makes incense in the Flowery Land.”

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Herbert Giles

Chinese Poetry in English Verse http://library.umac.mo/ebooks/b25541080.pdf, Dedication (dated October 1898)

“It must however always be borne in mind that translators are but traitors at the best, and that translations may be moonlight and water while the originals are sunlight and wine.”

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Herbert Giles Gems of Chinese Literature

Gems of Chinese Literature, Preface to the first edition (dated 16 October 1883)

“During the four hundred years of Han supremacy the march of civilization went steadily forward. Paper and ink were invented, and also the camel's-hair brush, both of which gave a great impetus to the arts of writing and painting.”

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The Civilization of China https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2076/2076-h/2076-h.htm (1911), p. 37

“[The Tao-Tê-Ching] is interesting as a collection of many genuine utterances of Lao Tzŭ, sandwiched however between thick wads of padding from which little meaning can be extracted except by enthusiasts who curiously enough disagree absolutely among themselves.”

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Herbert Giles livre A History of Chinese Literature

"Lao Tzŭ", p. 58
A History of Chinese Literature (1901)

“Flowers fade and fly, and flying fill the sky;
Their bloom departs, their perfume gone, yet who stands pitying by? …
Oh, let me sadly bury them beside these steps to-night! …
Farewell, dear flowers, for ever now, thus buried as 'twas best,
I have not yet divined when I with you shall sink to rest.
I who can bury flowers like this a laughing-stock shall be;
I cannot say in days to come what hands shall bury me.
See how when spring begins to fail each opening floweret fades;
So too there is a time of age and death for beauteous maids;
And when the fleeting spring is gone, and days of beauty o'er,
Flowers fall, and lovely maidens die, and both are known no more.”

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Herbert Giles livre A History of Chinese Literature

"The Hung Lou Mêng", p. 368
A History of Chinese Literature (1901)

“It was on his return journey that Pao-yü's father heard of the success and disappearance of his son. Torn by conflicting emotions he hurried on, in his haste to reach home and aid in unravelling the secret of Pao-yü's hiding-place. One moonlight night, his boat lay anchored alongside the shore, which a storm of the previous day had wrapped in a mantle of snow. He was sitting writing at a table, when suddenly, through the half-open door, advancing towards him over the bow of the boat, his silhouette sharply defined against the surrounding snow, he saw the figure of a shaven-headed Buddhist priest. The priest knelt down, and struck his head four times upon the ground, and then, without a word, turned back to join two other priests who were awaiting him. The three vanished as imperceptibly as they had come; before, indeed, the astonished father was able to realise that he had been, for the last time, face to face with Pao-yü!”

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Herbert Giles livre A History of Chinese Literature

"The Hung Lou Mêng", p. 383
A History of Chinese Literature (1901)

“It would be obviously unfair to describe the Chinese people as wanting in humour simply because they are tickled by jests which leave us comparatively unmoved. Few of our own most amusing stories will stand conversion into Chinese terms.”

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Herbert Giles livre A History of Chinese Literature

"Wit and Humour", p. 430
A History of Chinese Literature (1901)

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