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Paperback Translating Chinese Classics in a Colonial Context: James Legge and His Two Versions of the Zhongyong Book

ISBN: 3039116312

ISBN13: 9783039116317

Translating Chinese Classics in a Colonial Context: James Legge and His Two Versions of the Zhongyong

James Legge's (1815-1897) translations of the Confucian classics have long been venerated as the peak and standard of sinological translation, with little attention being paid to the traces of missionary and orientalist discourse within these awesome tomes. This book subjects Legge's Confucian translations to a postcolonial perspective, with a view of uncovering the subtle workings of colonialist ideology in the seemingly innocent act of translation...

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