Keywords: China missionary scholar; Legge's educational pursuits, encountering Confucianism, Term Question; Legge and Wang Tao 王韜, translating the Chinese Classics; exams, examinations, Oxford University Chinese studies; Bible translations, Malacca, Anglo-Chinese College; Che Jinguang 車錦光.

Scottish missions to China : commemorating the legacy of James Legge (1815-1897) /  edited by Alexander Chow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pulling the Plank Out of One's Own Eye: Reflective Moments of Transformation Gained from James Legge's Christian Engagement with Four Notable Chinese Persons / Lauren F. Pfister -- Psychological Research and the Roots of James Legge's Resilience / Marylin L. Bowman -- Legge in Oxford / David Jasper -- William Chalmers Burns in China / David J. Reimer -- China through Women's Eyes: the Contribution of Female Missionaries in Manchuria to the Image of China at the Turn of the 19th Century / Joanna Baradziej -- Anglo-Chinese College as a Bridge between the East and the West in Morrison and Legge's Time / Gao Zhiqiang -- Translator's Identity and Its Paradox: James Legge and Gu Hongming / Yang Huilin -- James Legge's Hermeneutical Methology as Revealed in His Translation of the Daxue / Zheng Shuhong -- "God Has Conferred Even on the Inferior People a Moral Sense": Legge's Concept of the "People" (min) in His Translation of the Book of Documents / Joachim Gentz -- Finding God's Chinese Name: a Comparison of the Approaches of Matteo Ricci and James Legge / Alexander Chou -- James Legge and the Missionary Tradition in British Sinology / Brian Stanley -- Living in the Shadows / Christopher Legge.

"This volume explores the important legacy of Scottish missions to China, with a focus on the missionary-scholar and Protestant sinologist par excellence James Legge (1815-1897). It challenges the simplistic caricature of Protestant missionaries as Orientalizing imperialists, but also shows how the Chinese context and Chinese persons "converted" Scottish missionaries in their understandings of China and the broader world. Scottish Missions to China brings together essays by leading Chinese, European, and North American scholars in mission history, sinology, theology, cultural and literary studies, and psychology. It calls attention to how the historic enterprise of Scottish missions to China presents new insights into Scottish-Chinese and British-Chinese relations"-- Provided by publisher

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Contents: Pilgrim Legge and the journey to the West, 1870-1874 -- Professor Legge at Oxford University, 1875-1876 -- Heretic Legge : relating Confucianism and Christianity, 1877-1878 -- Decipherer Legge : finding the Sacred in the Chinese classics, 1879-1880 -- Comparativist Legge : describing and comparing the religions of China, 1880- 1882 -- Translator Legge : closing the Confucian Canon, 1882-1885 -- Ancestor Legge : translating Buddhism and Daoism, 1886-1892 -- Teacher Legge : upholding the Whole Duty of Man, 1893-1897.

"In this study, Norman J. Girardot focuses on James Legge (1815-1897), one of the most important nineteenth-century figures in the cultural exchange between China and the West. A translator-transformer of Chinese texts, Legge was a pioneering cross-cultural pilgrim within missionary circles in China and within the academic world of Oxford University. By tracing Legge's career and his close association with Max Muller (1823-1900), Girardot elegantly brings a biographically embodied approach to the intellectual history of two important aspects of the emergent "human sciences" at the end of the nineteenth century: sinology and comparative religions."--Jacket.