A history of Chinese literature / by Herbert A. Giles.

  • Giles, Herbert Allen, 1845-1935.
Date:
1901
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Credit: A history of Chinese literature / by Herbert A. Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following Catalogues of Chinese libraries in Europe have been published in recent years :— Catalogue of Chinese Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Drawings in the Library of the British Museum. By R. K. Douglas, 1877. Catalogue of the Chinese Translation of the Buddhist Tripilaka. By Bunyio Nanjio, 1883. Catalogue of the Chinese Books and Manuscripts in the Library of Lord Crawford,, Haigh Hall, Wigan. By J. P. Edmond, 1895. Catalogue of the Chinese and Manchu Books in the Library of the University of Cambridge. By H. A. Giles, 1898. Catalogue des Livres Chinois, Cor/ens, faponais, etcin the Biblio- th£que Nationale. By Maurice Courant, Paris, 1900. (Fasc. i. pp. vii., 148, has already appeared.) The chief periodicals especially devoted to studies in Chinese litera- ture are as follows :— The Chinese Repository, published monthly at Canton from May 1832 to December 1851. The fournal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, published annually at Shanghai from 1858 to 1884, and since that date issued in fascicules at irregular intervals during each year. The China Review, published every two months at Hong-Kong from June 1872 to the present date. There is also the Chinese Recorder, which has existed since 1868, and is now published every two months at Shanghai. This is, strictly speaking, a missionary journal, but it often contains valuable papers on Chinese literature and cognate subjects. Variltds Sinologiques is the title of a series of monographs on various Chinese topics, written and published at irregular intervals by the Jesuit Fathers at Shanghai since 1892, and distinguished by the erudition and accuracy of all its contributors.