Lionel Giles

Lionel Giles

Lionel Giles (born 29 December 1875 – died 1958) was Keeper of the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts at the British Museum. He is most famous for his 1910 translation of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" which has now passed in to the public domain in the USA. His edition of "The Art of War" is noted for, among other things, its scathing refutations of the previous translations made by British officer E.F. Calthrop.

Also noteworthy are his translations: "The Sayings of Lao Tzu", "The Sayings of Confucius"Fact|date=March 2007, "The Book of Mencius"Fact|date=March 2007, and "Taoist Teachings"Fact|date=March 2007 all of which were part of the "Wisdom of the East Series", and published by John Murray, London.

Lionel was the son of British diplomat and sinologist Herbert Giles.

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* [http://images.anu.edu.au/gp_about.html The Giles-Pickford Photographic Collection] Lionel Giles's Translation of the "Tao Te Ching" at sacred-texts. * [http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/salt/index.htm]

Lionel Giles's Translation of "Taoist Teachings": from the book of Lieh Tzu* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/tt/index.htm]


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