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> He was not satisfied with the translations of The Four Books by #JamesLegge, hence he proceeded to translate The Discourses and Sayings of Confucius (論語 also known as The Analects) and The #ConductOfLife or the #UniversalOrderOfConfucius ( #中庸 also known as #DoctrineOTheMean).
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Today I'm working on a short bio of #JamesLegge, missionary, nineteenth-century #translator of the Chinese Classics, and first Professor of Chinese at Oxford. Part of my ongoing project 19th Century Chinese-English Translator Networks. #TranslationStudies #Translatology #ChineseStudies #China
Fun fact: he got the job at Oxford by donating his Chinese collection to the Bodleian library.