Author:James Legge

James Legge
(1815–1897)

James Legge

Works

• The Life and Teaching of Confucius, with explanatory notes (1887) IA
• "The Religion of China" in Religious Systems of the World: a contribution to the study of comparative religion (1892) IA
• The Religions of China: Confucianism and Tâoism described and compared with Christianity (1880) IA

Translations

• The Chinese Classics, originally intended as a seven-volume series:

• Vol. I (1861 & 1893) IA 1, IA 2:

• Confucian Analects
• "The Great Learning"
• "The Doctrine of the Mean"

• Vol. II (1861 & 1895) IA:

• The Works of Mencius

• Vol. III (1865) IA 1, IA 2:

• The Shoo King or Book of Historical Documents
• Bamboo Annals (in "Prolegomena")

• Vol. IV (1871) IA 1, IA 2:

• The She King or Book of Poetry

• Vol. V (1872) IA 1, IA 2:

• The Ch‘un Ts‘ew or Spring and Autumn Annals
• The Tso Chuen or Commentary of Zuo

• The Sacred Books of the East, for which Legge's work comprised the sub-series The Sacred Books of China:

• Pt. I (1879) (transcription project):

• The Shû King
• The Religious Portions of the Shih King
• The Hsiâo King

• Pt. II (1882) (transcription project)

• The Yî King

• Pt. III (transcription project) & Pt. IV (1885) (transcription project)

• The Lî Kî

• Pt. V (transcription project) & Pt. VI (1891) (transcription project)

• The Tâo Teh King
• The Writings of Kwang-dze
• Shorter works: the Taishang Ganying Pian (Tractate of Actions and their Retributions), the Qingjing Jing (Classic of Purity), the Yinfujing (Classic of the Harmony of the Seen and Unseen), the Yushu Jing (Classic of the Pivot of Jade), and the Nei Riyong Jing (Classic of the Directory for the Day)

• The Nei or Inner Circle of Teaching
• The Divine Classic of Chuang-Tze the Popularizer of Taoism
• A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms; being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-Hien of his travels in India and Ceylon, A.D. 399–414, in search of the Buddhist books of discipline (1886) IA

Contributions to EB9

• "Confucius," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (6) (1878)

Contributions to EB1911

• "Confucius," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lâo-Tsze," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Mencius," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about Legge

• "Legge, James," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Legge, James," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Legge, James," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)