Table 2.
Data for English translations of The Analects appearing in three or more of the five investigated websites.
| SN. | Translator | Pub year | Amazon | Goodreads | Archive | PDF drive | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| i = 5 | |||||||
| 1 | J. Legge | 1861 | 1,028 | 973 | 35,176 | 43 | 11,399 |
| 2 | W. Jennings | 1895 | 910 | 3 | 8,958 | 238 | 1,918 |
| 3 | D. C. Lau | 1979 | 923 | 20,889 | 390 | 768 | 1,545 |
| 4 | E. Pound | 1951 | 34 | 524 | 715 | 9 | 8 |
| i = 4 | |||||||
| 5 | R. Ames | 1998 | 138 | 0 | 69 | 1,221 | 621 |
| 6 | A. Waley | 1938 | 74 | 67 | 7,513 | 17 | 0 |
| 7 | L. Lyall | 1909 | 40 | 121 | 7,292 | 0 | 61 |
| 8 | Lin Yutang | 1938 | 20 | 163 | 6,854 | 7 | 0 |
| 9 | Annping Chin | 2014 | 14 | 31 | 505 | 0 | 791 |
| 10 | B. Watson | 2007 | 16 | 0 | 40 | 34 | 2,995 |
| 11 | Bruce Brooks | 2004 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 482 | 1,128 |
| 12 | David Hinton | 1998 | 4 | 203 | 131 | 10 | 0 |
| 13 | David L. Hall | 1999 | 2 | 25 | 83 | 1,309 | 0 |
| 14 | Van Norden | 2003 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 156 | 39 |
| 15 | E. Slingerland | 2003 | 0 | 52 | 29 | 504 | 1,316 |
| i = 3 | |||||||
| 16 | Lionel Giles | 1907 | 31 | 93 | 7,609 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | T. Cleary | 1992 | 20 | 253 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Peimin Ni | 2017 | 12 | 20 | 0 | 140 | 0 |
| 19 | R. Dawson | 1993 | 6 | 17 | 167 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | J. R. Ware | 1959 | 4 | 47 | 187 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Adam Sia | 1997 | 2 | 1 | 177 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Ku Hung-Ming | 1898 | 0 | 11 | 3,437 | 10 | 0 |
| 23 | H. Rosemont | 2013 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 37 | 158 |
| 24 | R. Eno | 2005 | 0 | 0 | 3,680 | 5 | 276 |
| 25 | J. Marshman | 1809 | 1 | 0 | 427 | 0 | 59 |