In the more than 150 years since the first edition of Legge's The Chinese Classics was published, some Chinese classics including The Four Books and The FiveClassics have been rendered into English, but Legge's version remains to be a standard, serving as the most authentic canon for westerners to understand the Oriental civilization and Chinese culture, as well as the Chinese national ethics. And without any shadow of a doubt, its meaning as a milestone has been clearer as time goes by.Since returning to England, Legge had been a professor of Sinology at Oxford for more than twenty years.His translation of Chinese classics and his teaching career have played a vital role in the establishment of Sinology as a discipline and had a positive effect on the development of Western Sinology. Legge's contribution is a milepost in transmitting the Eastern learning to the West and in the cultural exchanges between the East and the West.