Author:John Francis Davis

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John Francis Davis
(1795–1890)

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1st Baronet, KCB; (Chinese Translated Name: 戴維斯 or the obsolete term 爹核士)) British diplomat, sinologist, and the 2nd Governor of Hong Kong

Works

(tr.)San-Yu-Low|San-Yu-Low; or, The Three Dedicated Rooms (1815), translation of 三輿樓 (1568) by Li Yu (external scan)
(tr.) Chinese Novels (1822) (external scan)
A Vocabulary, Containing Chinese Words and Phrases Peculiar to Canton and Macao, and to the Trade of Those Places (1824) (external scan)
Chinese Moral Maxims (1823) (transcription project)
"Eugraphia Sinensis" in Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1 (1823), pp. 304−312
The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and Its Inhabitants (1836) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
Sketches of China (1841) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
Poetry and Criticism (1850) (external scan)
China, During the War and Since the Peace (1852) (external scan)
China: A General Description of That Empire and Its Inhabitants (1857) (external scan)
Chinese Miscellanies (1865) (external scan)
The poetry of the Chinese (1870) (external scan)
Vizier Ali Khan; or, The Massacre of Benares (1871) (external scan)

Works about Davis

"The Administration of Sir John F. Davis," in Europe in China by Ernst Johann Eitel (1895)
"Davis, John Francis," in Dictionary of National Biography Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1901) in 3 vols.

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