James Legge (/lɛɡ/; 20 December 1815 – 29 November 1897) was a Scottish linguist, missionary, sinologist, and translator who was best known as an early...
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Legge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Legge (1866–1933), US businessman, president of International Harvester Anthony...
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Kong, he changed his name from Wang Libin to Wang Tao. In Hong Kong, James Legge, the principal of the Anglo-Chinese College invited Wang Tao to stay...
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southern China, in Canton (Guangzhou), 19th-century Scottish scholar James Legge noted a mosque that had a placard denouncing footbinding, saying Islam...
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(Dharmaśāstra), part 1/2: Âpastamba Gautama Vâsishtha Baudhâyana 3 China 1879 James Legge The Sacred Books of China, part 1/6 – the texts of Confucianism: The...
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Mean, other English-language translators have rendered it differently. James Legge called it Constant Mean, Pierre Ryckmans (aka Simon Leys) used Middle...
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city. James Legge did not want Hong Rengan to have anything to do with the rebels because he distrusted and condemned their beliefs. When James Legge left...
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Legge romanization is a transcription system for Mandarin Chinese, used by the prolific 19th-century sinologist James Legge. It was replaced by the Wade–Giles...
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Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge, CB, CMG (15 August 1863 – 18 September 1947) was an Australian Army senior officer who served in the First World...
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Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh; reprinted (1961), London: George Allen and Unwin. James Legge (1891), The Texts of Taoism, in Sacred Books of the East, vols. XXXIX...
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