"Norman J. Girardot's "The Victorian Translation of China: James
Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage is breathtaking in its scope. James
Legge was a giant in Sinology; only a monumental volume such as
this one could do justice to him. The publication of this biography
of Legge is a major event, not just for the history of Sinology,
but for the intellectual history of the late 19th century in
general. Indeed, in a sense, the book is almost as much about the
great Indologist and comparative philologist Max Muller as it is
about the Christian missionary from Aberdeen who produced such
epochal translations of the Chinese classics in Hong Kong and at
Oxford. Partly inspired by Lytton Strachey's trenchant insights of
into the Victorian mind and character, Girardot's masterpiece
deserves to be ranked with the finest examples of the craft of
writing about influential persons and interesting eras. But it is
more than that; quite simply, this is one of the most outstanding
academic biographies of all time and in any field."--Victor H.
Mair, translator of "Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity
and the Way and "Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and
Parables of Chuang Tzu.
"Through a densely annotated translation of the entire Confucian
canon and two seminal Daoist texts, James Legge is the single most
important individual in making the historical classics of Chinese
history and philosophy known to English readership, and through it
to the entire Western world. Norman Girardot's study, surpassing
all previous efforts in chronicling the person and assessing
Legge's legacy, is itself a monumental achievement in research,
interpretation, and writing. The focalized discussion of the
subject interms of the scholar as missionary, the development of
Sinological Orientalism, and the rise and growth of the Comparative
Science of Religions or "Religionswissenschaft provides unrivalled
enormity of scope and depth of understanding. "The Victorian
Translation of China will remain a definitive work for decades to
come."--Anthony C. Yu, author most recently of "Rereading the
Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red
Chamber.
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