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James Legge at Corpus Christi College Oxford, 1876, after retirement from Hong Kong (1842-1873)

Submitted by Bowman Marilyn on Thu, 2017-03-09 01:50
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1876

James Legge (1815-1897), scholar-missionary to China in Hong Kong (1842-1873), and the first translator into any Western language of all of the Chinese Classics.

This large and beautiful oil painting of Legge was done by Christie, and hangs in Corpus Christi College Oxford, where Legge spent his years after Hong Kong as the first Professor of Chinese at Oxford, supported by an endowment from HK taipans.

Details in my book:  James Legge and the Chinese Classics, Bowman, 2016, Friesen Press.

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