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    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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    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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    (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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  • 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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    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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    have a screen intercepting the view at their gates". 邦君樹塞門, trans. by James Legge). Nine-Dragon Walls in China: Beihai Park, Beijing. Built in 1756, it...
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