Translating Chinese Classics in a Colonial Context: James Legge and His Two Versions of the -Zhongyong- by Hui Wang

Translating Chinese Classics in a Colonial Context: James Legge and His Two Versions of the -Zhongyong-

Hui Wang

224 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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James Legge's (1815-1897) translations of the Confucian classics have long been venerated as the peak and standard of sinological translation, with little attention being paid to the traces of missionary and orientalist discourse within these awes...

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