CCC95138 Portrait of Professor James Legge (1815-97) First Oxford Professor of Chinese and Member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (oil on canvas) by Christie, James Elder (1847-1914); 111.7x134.6 cm; Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK; (add.info.: James Legge (1815??7) was a noted Scottish sinologist, a Scottish Congregationalist, representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong (1840??873), and first professor of Chinese at Oxford University (1876??897). In association with Max M羹ller he prepared the monumental Sacred Books of the East series, published in 50 volumes between 1879 and 1891. ); English, out of copyright.