Lionel Charles Hopkins
(1854–1952)

British sinologist, known for his collection of "oracle bones." Brother of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Works

  • The origin and earlier history of the Chinese coinage (1895) external link
  • Pictographic Reconnaissances... in Archaic Chinese Writing (1917) external link

Translations

  • 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 link
  • The guide to Kuan Hua; a translation of Kuan Hua Shih Nan (1906) external link

Works about Hopkins

  • 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 link


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1952, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or less. Works by this author may also 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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