Victorian Translation of China
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A01=Norman J. Girardot
Author_Norman J. Girardot
biography
buddhism
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china
chinese culture
chinese language
chinese literature
chinese religion
chinese texts
colonialism
confucius
conversion
cultural appropriation
daoism
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going native
heathen
history
hong kong
james legge
max muller
mission
missionary
nonfiction
orientalism
pilgrim
scotland
scottish preacher
sinology
tradition
translations
translator
union church
victorian england
victorian period
Product details
- ISBN 9780520215528
- Weight: 1406g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Sep 2002
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this magisterial 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. Girardot weaves a captivating narrative that illuminates the era in which Legge lived as well as the surroundings in which he worked. His encyclopedic knowledge of pertinent figures, documents, peculiar ideologies, and even the personal quirks of principal and minor players brings the world of imperial China and Victorian England very much to life. At the same time, Girardot gets at the roots of much of the twentieth-century discourse about the strange religious or nonreligious otherness of China.
Norman J. Girardot is University Distinguished Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Lehigh University. His previous books include Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism (California, 1983).
