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James Legge
理雅各James Legge is a major figure in the history of Chinese studies, with work spanning translation, literature, religion and philosophy. This dossier distinguishes the person's scholarship from what can—and cannot—yet be verified about the Chinese name.
1815—1897Scotland
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James Legge produced a multivolume English translation of the Chinese classics and served as Oxford's first professor of Chinese from 1876 to 1897. He became one of the nineteenth-century English-speaking world's most important translators of the Confucian canon and other early texts.
His richly annotated translations had a lasting influence on English-language studies of Confucianism. He sometimes judged the tradition through Victorian Christian theology, yet he approached Confucius and ancient Chinese religion with greater respect than many other missionaries of his era.
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