Author:John Francis Davis

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John Francis Davis
(1795–1890)

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)
• 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

Articles

• "Extracts from the Peking Gazettes" in Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1, pp. 254–258
• "Eugraphia Sinensis" in Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1, pp. 304–312

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.