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 (3 vols. 1870–1876) (External scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)

• The Analects
• Shih King, the Book of Odes

• Contributed to Sacred Books of the East

• Volume 3 (The Sacred Books of China, vol. 1) (transcription project)
• Volume 27 (The Sacred Books of China, vol. 3) (transcription project)
• Volume 28 (The Sacred Books of China, vol. 4) (transcription project)
• Volume 39 (The Sacred Books of China, vol. 5: The Texts of Taoism, Part 1) (transcription project)

• Tao Te Ching

• Volume 40 (The Sacred Books of China, vol. 6: The Texts of Taoism, Part 2) (transcription project)

• 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

• “Mencius,” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911