James Legge

James Legge (; ) adalah seorang sinologis, misionaris, dan cendekiawan Skotlandia, yang dikenal sebagai penerjemah awal teks-teks Tionghoa Klasik ke dalam bahasa Inggris. Legge menjabat sebagai perwakilan London Missionary Society di Malaka dan Hong Kong (1840–1873) dan menjadi Professor of Chinese pertama di Universitas Oxford (1876–1897). Dalam asosiasi dengan Max Müller, ia menyiapkan seri monumental Sacred Books of the East, diterbitkan dalam 50 volume antara 1879 dan 1891.

Referensi

Kutipan

Sumber 

 
 Forbes, Andrew; Henley, David (2012). The Illustrated Tao Te Ching (Jamese Legge translation). Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN: B008NNLKXC
 
Lauren F. Pfister, Striving for 'The Whole Duty of Man': James Legge and the Scottish Protestant Encounter with China, 2 vols., published by The Scottish Studies Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz in Germersheim, 2004.
 Legge, Helen Edith (1905). James Legge, Missionary and Scholar, London: Religious Tract Society.

Bacaan tambahan

Pranala luar

 
 
 
 Chinese Classics of the "Sacred Books of the East" most of which were translated by Legge
 Smith, Carl (1986), "A sense of history (Part I)", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 26: 144–264.
 “The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and its characteristics”, English translation by James Legge. Scalable text on white, grey or black background. Downloadable as a .txt file.
 James Legge and the Confucian Classics: Brilliant Scot in the Turmoil of Colonial Hong Kong. 2015. By Marilyn Bowman. An eBook downloadable as a .pdf file.
 Letters and papers, dated 1859-1897, of James Legge, and of his second wife, Hannah (died 1881) are held by SOAS Archives.

Alumni Universitas Aberdeen
Somerville College, Oxford