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Article: The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage.(FEATURES)(Book Review)
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- China Review International
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- March 22, 2004
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Norman Girardot. The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 780 pp. Hardcover $75.00, ISBN 0-520-21552-4.
Before the huge expansion of Chinese-language training programs in the second half of the twentieth century, no single individual did more to introduce the English-reading world to Chinese thought than James Legge. His output was staggering by any measure. Between 1861 and 1872 Legge published the Chinese Classics in five volumes, including the Analects, The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Book of Mencius, and the historical annals and poetry. Later he would turn to the ...