The Chinese classics
Subtitle: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena, and copious indexes
By: by James Legge
Publisher: Southern Materials Center
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Taipei, Republic of China
Language: eng; chi
Translated from: chi
Subjects: Chinese literature; Translations into English; English literature; Chinese Translations; History
Notes: Texts in Chinese and English.

Includes reproductions of original title pages.

"Reprinted from the last editions [1893-95] of the Oxford University Press. A number of errata listed by James Legge have been corrected in the text. Added at the front of each volume are concordance tables to later translations in English, French, and German, and to the Shi san jing zhu shu fu jiao kan ji ... Shanghai, 1935"--Half title verso.

The work was originally planned for 7 v. The Yi jing and Li ji, which were intended to complete it, were published in Sacred books of the East, v. 16 and 27-28 respectively.

Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Confucian analects. The great learning. The doctrine of the mean; title: v. 2. The works of Mencius; title: v. 3. The Shoo king; title: v. 4. The She king; title: v. 5. The Ch'un Ts'ew, with the Tso chuen.