Author:Lionel Charles Hopkins
British sinologist, known for his collection of "oracle bones." Brother of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Works edit
- The origin and earlier history of the Chinese coinage (1895) (external link external scan)
- Pictographic Reconnaissances... in Archaic Chinese Writing (1917) (external link external scan)
Translations edit
- The Six Scripts: Or, The Principles of Chinese Writing (六书故 by Tai T'ung 戴侗, 1200—1285) (original edition was published in Amoy in 1881 and is very rare; most recent Cambridge UP edition of 1954 contains a biography of L. C. Hopkins by W. Perceval Yetts) (external scan)
- The guide to Kuan Hua; a translation of Kuan Hua Shih Nan (1906) (external link external scan)
Works about Hopkins edit
- W. Perceval Yetts, Memoir of the Translator, in The Six Scripts (1954) under Translations listed above.
- Edward Shaughnessy, Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory: An Outline of Western Studies of Chinese Unearthed Documents (Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Nov 18, 2019), pp. 80-82 (external scan)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.
This author died in 1952, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 71 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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