Shih King; or, Book of Poetry

Name: Shih King; or, Book of Poetry
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ISBN: 9781406549454

ISBN-10: 1406549452

ISBN-13: 9781406549454

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Authors: James Legge

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James Legge (1815-1897) was born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and then Kings College, Aberdeen. He was a noted Scottish sinologist, a Scottish Congregationalist, representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong (1840-1873), and first professor of Chinese at Oxford University (1876-1897). In 1876 he assumed the new Chair of Chinese Language and Literature at Oxford, where he attracted few students to his lectures but worked hard for some 20 years over his translations of the Chinese classics. Legge was given an honorary MA, University of Oxford, and LLD, University of Edinburgh, 1884. In association with Max Muller he prepared the…

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List price: $16.99
Publisher: Dodo Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English