E. R. Hughes

Ernest Richard Hughes (5 January 1883 – 20 October 1956) was a British sinologist and missionary. He was a missionary in China (1911–1931), and Reader for Chinese philosophy and religion at Oxford University (1934–1942).

He translated The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy by the Chinese philosopher Fung Yu-lan into English.

Selected publications

The Invasion of China by the Western World. (Pioneer Histories). Adam and Charles Black, London, 1937 (digitisation) Chinese Philosophy in Classical Times (Everyman's Library). Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1950 (digitisation) (with Katherine Hughes) Religion in China (Hutchinson's University Library).Hutchinson, 1950 (digitisation) Art of Letters: Lu Chi's "Wen Fu," A.D. 302, A Translation and Comparative Study (Bollingen Series, No. 29). Pantheon Books, Copyright 1951 Two Chinese Poets: Vignettes of Han Life and Thought. 1960 (Google Books) (as translator) Fung Yu-lan: The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy. 1947 (digitisation) (as translator) The Great Learning & the Mean-in-Action. Newly translated from the Chinese, with an Introductory Essay on the History of Chinese Philosophy. London: Dent, 1942 (foreword) O. Brière; Laurence G. Thompson (translated from French) Fifty Years of Chinese Philosophy 1898–1950. 1956 (digitisation) (Original: „Les courants philosophiques en Chine depuis 50 ans. (1898–1950)“, Bulletin de l'Université l'Aurore, Série III, X. (1949), 561–654)