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James Legge
James Legge was a Scottish linguist, missionary, sinologist, and translator who was best known as an early translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. Legge served as a representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong (1840–1873) and was the first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University (1876–1897). In association with Max Müller he prepared the monumental Sacred Books of the East series, published in 50 volumes between 1879 and 1891.
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The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics
Laozi · James Legge
The Chinese Classics — Prolegomena
James Legge
Chinese literature
Epiphanius Wilson · 552 BCE-480 BCE Confucius +5
The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
552 BCE-480 BCE Confucius · James Legge
The Chinese Classics — Volume 1: Confucian Analects
James Legge