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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
John Francis Davis
Works
- (tr.)San-Yu-Low|San-Yu-Low; or, The Three Dedicated Rooms (1815), translation of 三輿樓 (1568) by Li Yu IA
- (tr.) Chinese Novels (1822) IA
- A Vocabulary, Containing Chinese Words and Phrases Peculiar to Canton and Macao, and to the Trade of Those Places (1824) Google Books
- Chinese Moral Maxims (1823) (transcription project)
- "Eugraphia Sinensis" in Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1, 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) IA
- China, During the War and Since the Peace (1852) (HathiTrust)
- China: A General Description of That Empire and Its Inhabitants (1857) (HathiTrust)
- Chinese Miscellanies (1865) IA
- The poetry of the Chinese (1870) IA
- Vizier Ali Khan; or, The Massacre of Benares (1871) IA
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, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
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