Herbert Gilles

Herbert Al Gilles (December 8th 1845 - February 13rd 1935) was a diplomat and sinologist britannique.

It modified the romanisation of Chinese developed by Thomas Wade, which produced the system Lagging-Gilles, very much used before the arrival of the Hanyu Pinyin in the Fifties, mainly in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Category: sinologist Category: British diplomat

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