An edition of The Victorian Translation of China (2002)
The Victorian Translation of China
James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage
By Norman J. Girardot
Publish Date
May 20, 2002
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
eng
Pages
836
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.