The Victorian Translation of China
Subtitle: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 20, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 861
ISBN-13: 9780520215528
Subjects: Asian studies; Biography: general; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Comparative religion; Religion; Great Britain; Biography / Autobiography; Missions & Missionary Work; China; England; Historical - General; Asia - China; Christian Ministry - Missions; History / Asia; Biography; General; 1815-1897; Legge, James,; Missionaries
First sentence: In the spring of 1873, thirty years after he first arrived as a missionary in the newly created colony of Hong Kong, James Legge prepared to leave his prophetic Land of Simm.
Description: "In this study, Norman J. Girardot focuses on James Legge (1815-1897), one of the most important nineteenth-century figures in the cultural exchange between China and the West. A translator-transformer of Chinese texts, Legge was a pioneering cross-cultural pilgrim within missionary circles in China and within the academic world of Oxford University.

By tracing Legge's career and his close association with Max Muller (1823-1900), Girardot elegantly brings a biographically embodied approach to the intellectual history of two important aspects of the emergent "human sciences" at the end of the nineteenth century: sinology and comparative religions."--BOOK JACKET.