Title: The Victorian Translation of China
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.
Subjects: Missionaries, Biography, Religion, Sinologie, Kulturbeziehungen, Oriëntalisme, Missionarissen, Missionaries, biography, Civilization, Christian influences, History, Social life and customs