Author:James Legge

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James Legge (1815–1897)

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Scottish sinologist, representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong, and first professor of Chinese at Oxford University

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "J. Le."

James Legge

Works

• The Life and Teaching of Confucius, with explanatory notes (1887) (External scan)
• "The Religion of China" in Religious Systems of the World: a contribution to the study of comparative religion (1892) (External scan)
• The Religions of China: Confucianism and Tâoism described and compared with Christianity (1880) (External scan)

Translations

• The Chinese Classics, originally intended as a seven-volume series:

• Vol. I (1861 & 1893) (External scans (multiple parts): 1, 2):

• Confucian Analects
• "The Great Learning"
• "The Doctrine of the Mean"

• Vol. II (1861 & 1895) (External scan):

• The Works of Mencius

• Vol. III (1865) (External scans (multiple parts): 1, 2):

• The Shoo King or Book of Historical Documents

• Vol. IV (1871) (External scans (multiple parts): 1, 2):

• The She King or Book of Poetry

• Vol. V (1872) (External scans (multiple parts): 1, 2):

• The Ch‘un Ts‘ew
• The Tso Chuen

• The Sacred Books of the East, for which Legge's work comprised the series

• The Sacred Books of China:

• Pt. I (1879) (transcription project):

* The Shû King

* The Religious Portions of the Shih King

* The Hsiâo King

• Pt. II (1882) (transcription project)

• The Yî King

• Pt. III (transcription project) & Pt. IV (1885) (transcription project)

• The Lî Kî

• Pt. V (transcription project) & Pt. VI (1891) (transcription project)

• The Tâo Teh King
• The Writings of Kwang-dze

• The Nei or Inner Circle of Teaching
• The Divine Classic of Chuang-Tze the Popularizer of Taoism
• A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms; being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-Hien of his travels in India and Ceylon, A.D. 399–414, in search of the Buddhist books of discipline]] (1886) (External scan)

Contributions to EB1911

• “Confucius”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911
• “Lâo-Tsze”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911
• “Mencius”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911