Confucian Analects (Legge bilingual)
Confucius (traditional attribution)
The Confucian Analects (Lunyu), traditional classical Chinese with James Legge's historical English translation (1893 second-edition line), 20 books. Source: a revision-pinned Wikisource scan-linked transcription; source punctuation retained in displayed blocks. Community transcription, not a critical edition. Not the complete Chinese Classics series.
Book & edition details
- Original language
- Bilingual
- Original publication
- —
- Edition
- Confucian Analects — Legge 1893 Chinese/English transcription (Wikisource)
- Publisher
- Historical James Legge edition / Wikisource volunteer transcription
- Length
- 29,597 words · about 149 min
- Reader typography
- standard
Authenticity notes: Twenty pinned original Wikisource revision IDs and SHA-256 hashes per book; community-rendered Chinese/English source sections, with only page navigational markup excluded. Attribution: James Legge (1815–1897), Chinese original is ancient. Not Project Gutenberg ebook #3330 or #4094. Wikisource contribution licensing acknowledged, no machine translation.
Authentic source provenance
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- Source / authority
- 1893 James Legge Chinese/English transcription via English Wikisource (revisions pinned per book).
- Source edition / identifier
- wikisource-legge-analects-1893-bilingual
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