James Legge

James Legge
Lahir	(1815-12-20)20 Desember 1815 Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Skotlandia
Meninggal	29 November 1897(1897-11-29) (umur 81) Oxford, Inggris
Almamater	Universitas Aberdeen
James Legge Hanzi: 理雅各 Alih aksara Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Yǎgè Yue (Kantonis) - Romanisasi Yale: Léih Ngáah-gok
(1875) Prix Stanislas Julien (en)

James Legge (/lɛɡ/; 20 Desember 1815 – 29 November 1897) adalah seorang sinologis, misionaris, dan cendekiawan Skotlandia, yang dikenal sebagai penerjemah awal teks-teks Tionghoa Klasik ke dalam bahasa Inggris. Legge menjabat sebagai perwakilan London Missionary Society di Malaka dan Hong Kong (1840–1873) dan menjadi Professor of Chinese pertama di Universitas Oxford (1876–1897). Dalam asosiasi dengan Max Müller, ia menyiapkan seri monumental Sacred Books of the East, diterbitkan dalam 50 volume antara 1879 dan 1891.

Referensi

Sumber

•  Artikel ini memuat teks dari The religions of China: Confucianism and Tâoism described and compared with Christianity, oleh James Legge, publikasi dari tahun 1880, sekarang berada pada domain umum di Amerika Serikat.
• Forbes, Andrew; Henley, David (2012). The Illustrated Tao Te Ching (Jamese Legge translation). Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN: B008NNLKXC
• N. J. Girardot (2002). The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21552-8. 
• Lauren F. Pfister, Striving for 'The Whole Duty of Man': James Legge and the Scottish Protestant Encounter with China, 2 vols., published by The Scottish Studies Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz in Germersheim, 2004.
• Legge, Helen Edith (1905). James Legge, Missionary and Scholar, London: Religious Tract Society.

Bacaan tambahan

• Endacott, G. B. (2005) [1962]. A biographical sketch-book of early Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-742-1. 

Pranala luar

• Karya James Legge di Project Gutenberg
• Karya oleh/tentang James Legge di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
• Karya James Legge di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
• Chinese Classics of the "Sacred Books of the East" most of which were translated by Legge
• Smith, Carl (1986), "A sense of history (Part I)", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 26: 144–264.
• “The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and its characteristics”, English translation by James Legge. Scalable text on white, grey or black background. Downloadable as a .txt file.
• James Legge and the Confucian Classics: Brilliant Scot in the Turmoil of Colonial Hong Kong. 2015. By Marilyn Bowman. An eBook downloadable as a .pdf file.
• Letters and papers, dated 1859-1897, of James Legge, and of his second wife, Hannah (died 1881) are held by SOAS Archives.