[First posted 8/30/10. Most recently updated 21 August 2017]
Sino-Platonic Papers
Sino-Platonic Papers
ISSN: 2157-9679 (print)
ISSN: 2157-9687 (online)
Sino-Platonic Papers is an occasional series edited by Victor H. Mair of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. The purpose of the series is to make available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished.Since issue no. 171 (June 2006), Sino-Platonic Papers has been published electronically on the Web at no cost to readers, with older back issues also being released periodically for free in e-editions. Paper copies of issues nos. 1–170 will continue to be available for purchase until our stock runs out, at which point those issues too will be available for free on the Web.
# Date Author Title Pp Price 271 June 2017 Christopher P. Atwood University of PennsylvaniaThe Textual History of Tao Zongyi’s Shuofu: Preliminary Results of Stemmatic Research on the Shengwu qinzheng lu 70 free 270 June 2017 Olivia Milburn Seoul National UniversityThe Chinese Mosquito: A Literary Theme 50 free 269 May 2017 Kristen Pearson University of PennsylvaniaChasing the Shaman’s Steed: The Horse in Myth from Central Asia to Scandinavia 21 free 268 May 2017 Julie Lee Wei Palo Alto, CaliforniaTranslator’s Preface to the English Translation of Mou Zongsan’s Nineteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy 17 free 267 March 2017 William E. Mierse University of VermontThe Significance of the Central Asian Objects in the Shōsōin for Understanding the International Art Trade in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries 52 free 266 Jan. 2017 Eva Shan Chou Baruch College, City University of New YorkThe End of Fiction, the Start of Politics: Lu Xun in 1926–1927 29 free 265 Jan. 2017 Peng Peng Princeton UniversityA Study on the Origin of Chinese Lost-wax Casting from the Perspectives of Art, Technology, and Social Agency 48 free 264 Dec. 2016 Victor H. Mair, ed. University of PennsylvaniaSinitic Language and Script in East Asia: Past and Present vi, 202 free 263 Dec. 2016 Brian R. Pellar Boston, MAThe Foundation of Myth: A Unified Theory of the Link Between Seasonal/Celestial Cycles, the Precession, Theology, and the Alphabet/Zodiac, Part II x, 186 free 262 Aug. 2016 Chau H. Wu Northbrook, ILPatterns of Sound Correspondence between Taiwanese and Germanic/Latin/Greek/Romance Lexicons, Part I 239 free 261 May 2016 André Bueno Rio de Janeiro State UniversityRoman Views of the Chinese in Antiquity 21 free 260 Dec. 2015 Lucas Christopoulos Lausanne, SwitzerlandGreek Influences on the Pazyryk-style Wrestling Motif of the Keshengzhuang Bronze Buckles 13 free 259 Nov. 2015 J. P. Mallory Queen’s University, BelfastThe Problem of Tocharian Origins: An Archaeological Perspective 63 free 258 Oct. 2015 Lyndon A. Arden-Wong Macquarie University, SydneyIrina A. ArzhantsevaRussian Academy of Sciences, MoscowOlga N. InevatkinaState Museum of Oriental Art, MoscowReflecting on the Rooftops of the Eastern Uighur Khaganate: A Preliminary Study of Uighur Roof Tiles 72 free 257 May 2015 ZHANG He William Paterson UniversityThe Terminology for Carpets in Ancient Central Asia 35 free 256 April 2015 Victor H. Mair, ed. University of PennsylvaniaLanguage and Ideology in Nationalist and Communist China 72 free 255 Feb. 2015 Jens Østergaard Petersen CopenhagenThe Zuozhuan Story about Qi Xi’s Recommendations and Its Sources 50 free 254 Jan. 2015 Michael Turk Paradise, CaliforniaMajiayao Legacy: A Neolithic Record of Astronomy, Acupuncture, and Midwifery 67 free 253 Dec. 2014 Alessandro Berio Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThe Celestial River: Identifying the Ancient Egyptian Constellations 58 free 252 Dec. 2014 L.S. Vasil'ev Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow; the Higher School of Economics, Moscowtranslated by Rostislav BerezkinFudan University, ShanghaiDao and Brahman: The Phenomenon of Primordial Supreme Unity 33 free 251 Aug. 2014 Yu Taishan Chinese Academy of Social SciencesThe Name “Sakā” 10 free 250 July 2014 Andrew Chittick Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FloridaVernacular Languages in the Medieval Jiankang Empire 25 free 249 June 2014 Jonathan Ratcliffe Monash UniversityArimaspians and Cyclopes: The Mythos of the One-Eyed Man in Greek and Inner Asian Thought 71 free 248 May 2014 Catalin Anghelina Columbus State Community CollegeOn the Date of the Aryan Religion, and the Minoan Religion of the Bull 16 free 247 April 2014 Yu Taishan Chinese Academy of Social SciencesThe Sui Dynasty and the Western Regions 24 free 246 April 2014 Brian R. Pellar Boston, MassachusettsOn the Origins of the Alphabet: New Evidence 22 free 245 March 2014 Gaby Bamana University of WalesDogs and Herders: Mythical Kinship, Spiritual Analogy, and Sociality in Rural Mongolia 18 free 244 Jan. 2014 Norman Harry Rothschild Sichuan University Center for Cooperative and Innovative Research and Development in the Humanities and Sciences, and the University of North FloridaRhetoric of the Loom: Discursive Weaving Women in Chinese and Greek Traditions 22 free 243 Dec. 2013 Rostislav Berezkin Fudan UniversityFrom Imperial Metaphor to Rebellious Deities: The History and Modern State of Western Studies of Chinese Popular Religion 35 free 242 Nov. 2013 YU Taishan Chinese Academy of Social SciencesChina and the Ancient Mediterranean World: A Survey of Ancient Chinese Sources 268 free 241 Oct. 2013 Catalin Anghelina Columbus State Community CollegeOn the Nature of the Vedic Gods 198 free 240 Sept. 2013 Miriam Robbins Dexter UCLAVictor H. MairUniversity of PennsylvaniaSacred Display: New Findings 122 free 239 Aug. 2013 Eric P. Hamp University of Chicagowith Annotation and Comments by Douglas Q. AdamsUniversity of IdahoThe Expansion of the Indo-European Languages: An Indo-Europeanist’s Evolving View 14 free 238 May
2013Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania
with contributions by E. Bruce BrooksUniversity of MassachusettsWas There a Xià Dynasty? 39 free 237 April
2013Victor H. Mair and Cheng FangyiUniversity of Pennsylvania and Tsinghua University Kungang (昆岗): The Making of an Imaginary Archaeological Culture 32 free 236 April
2013Wan Kong AnnTsinghua University Examining the Connection Between Ancient China and Borneo Through Santubong Archaeological Sites 18 free 235 March
2013Scott A. BarnwellLondon, Ontario, Canada The Evolution of the Concept of De 德in Early China 83 free 234 March
2013James M. HargettThe University at Albany, State University of New York 會稽: Guaiji? Guiji? Huiji? Kuaiji? Some Remarks on an Ancient Chinese Place-Name 32 free 233 Feb.
2013Johan ElverskogSouthern Methodist University China and the New Cosmopolitanism 30 free 232 Nov.
2012Huili ZhengSaint Vincent College Gendering Other: The Representation of Foreigners in Yesou puyan 39 free 231 Oct.
2012Heleanor FelthamUniversity of New South Wales Encounter with a Tiger Traveling West 29 free 230 Aug.
2012Lucas ChristopoulosKobe, Japan Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD) 79 free 229 Aug.
2012Joshua A. FogelYork University, Toronto New Thoughts on an Old Controversy: Shina as a Toponym for China 25 free 228 July
2012Victor H. Mair, ed.University of Pennsylvania The “Silk Roads” in Time and Space: Migrations, Motifs, and Materials 308 free 227 July
2012Hans LoeschnerVienna The Stūpa of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka the Great, with Comments on the Azes Era and Kushan Chronology 24 free 226 June
2012ZHOU YouguangBeijing To Inherit the Ancient Teachings of Confucius and Mencius and Establish Modern Confucianism 21 free 225 June
2012Patricia Eichenbaum KaretzkyBard College The Image of the Winged Celestial and Its Travels along the Silk Road 45 free 224 May
2012Victor H. Mair, ed.University of Pennsylvania Developments in Chinese Language and Script During the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 130 free 223 April
2012Bertrand ArnaudParis Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes Water Management in Jingjue Kingdom: The Transfer of a Water Tank System from Gandhara to Xinjiang in the Third and Fourth centuries C.E. 81 free 222 March
2012John R. McRae and Jan Nattier, eds.
Buddhism Across Boundaries: The Interplay of Indian, Chinese, and Central Asian Source Materials 260 free 221 Jan.
2012Conal BoyceCentury College The Dao De Jing Minus Ninety-six Percent: A Troubled Text Relieved of Its Politics and Bloat; and Another Look at the Indic Influence Puzzle 26 free 220 Jan.
2012Mark BenderOhio State University Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki and “Axlu yyr kut”: Native Tongues in Literatures of Cultural Transition 25 free 219 Jan.
2012Brian R. PellarBoston, Massachusetts The Foundation of Myth: A Unified Theory on the Link Between Seasonal/Celestial Cycles, the Precession, Theology, and the Alphabet/Zodiac (Part One) 132 free 218 Dec.
2011Michael TurkParadise, California Magician’s Map 26 free 217 Dec.
2011Jin GUANUniversity of Pennsylvania Guanxi: The Key to Achieving Success in China 10 free 216 Oct.
2011ZHANG HeWilliam Paterson University Is Shuma the Chinese Analog of Soma/Haoma? A Study of Early Contacts between Indo-Iranians and Chinese 36 free 215 Sept.
2011Matthew AndersonUniversity of Pennsylvania An Investigation of Orthographic Variance in Shang Writing 16 free 214 Sept.
2011Mark A. RiddlePleasant Grove, Utah Tennō (天皇): The Central Asian Origin of Japan’s Solar Kingship 25 free 213 Aug.
2011Xiang WANUniversity of Pennsylvania Early Development of Bronze Metallurgy in Eastern Eurasia 17 free 212 July
2111YU TaishanChinese Academy of Social Sciences The Origin of the Kushans 22 free 211 May
2011ZHOU JixuSichuan Normal University Confucius and Lao Zi: Their Differing Social Foundations and Cultures 18 free 210 April
2011Mark A. RiddlePleasant Grove, Utah Turkic “Balbal” in Japan 14 free 209 April
2011Mark A. RiddlePleasant Grove, Utah Japan and Inner Asia: Some Connections 23 free 208 Feb.
2011Victor H. Mair, ed.University of Pennsylvania Reviews XIII 120 free 207 Oct.
2010Randolph FordNew York University Barbaricum Depictum: Images of the Germani and Xiongnu in the Works of Tacitus and Sima Qian 31 free 206 Aug.
2010Heleanor B. FelthamUniversity of New South Wales Lions, Silks and Silver: The Influence of Sasanian Persia 51 free 205 July
2010Heleanor B. FelthamUniversity of New South Wales Nomad Culture, Greek Style: Steppes Jewellery and Adornment 31 free 204 June
2010YU TaishanChinese Academy of Social Sciences The Earliest Tocharians in China 78 free 203 June
2010Donald F. BeaumontSenior University, Georgetown, Texas How the Earth’s Geology Determined Human History 93 free 202 May
2010David McCrawUniversity of Hawaii An “ABC” Exercise in Old Sinitic Lexical Statistics 42 free 201 May
2010Hoong Teik TOHJohor, Malaysia Notes on the Earliest Sanskrit Word Known in Chinese 10 free 200 April
2010Urs AppSwiss National Science Foundation Arthur Schopenhauer and China: A Sino-Platonic Love Affair viii, 164 free 199 March
2010Tae Hyun KIMBerkeley Other Laozi Parallels in the Hanfeizi: An Alternative Approach to the Textual History of the Laozi and Early Chinese Thought 76 free 198 Feb.
2010Doug HitchWhitehorse, Yukon Aramaic Script Derivatives in Central Eurasia 18 free 197 Jan.
2010YU TaishanChinese Academy of Social Sciences The Communication Lines between East and West as Seen in the Mu Tianzi Zhuan 57 free 196 Dec.
2009Brian R. PellarSan Diego, California On the Origins of the Alphabet 46 free 195 Dec.
2009John L. SorensonBrigham Young University A Complex of Ritual and Ideology Shared by Mesoamerica and the Ancient Near East 134 free 194 Nov.
2009Heleanor B. FelthamUniversity of New South Wales Justinian and the International Silk Trade 40 free 193 Nov.
2009edited and with a foreword by Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Women and Men, Love and Power: Parameters of Chinese Fiction and Drama 180 free 192 Sept.
2009John C. DidierColorado State University In and Outside the Square: The Sky and the Power of Belief in Ancient China and the World, c. 4500 BC – AD 200 (3 volumes) c. 1000 free 191 July
2009Urs AppSwiss National Science Foundation William Jones’s Ancient Theology 125 free 190 June
2009Pita KeleknaNew York City The Politico-Economic Impact of the Horse on Old World Cultures: An Overview 31 free 189 June
2009Li Chen, Genevieve Y. Leung, Matthew A. Marcucci, and Kenneth Yeh; with a foreword by Victor H. Mair.University of Pennsylvania Sinographic Languages: The Past, Present, and Future of Script Reform 101 free 188 May
2009Geoff WadeInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore The Polity of Yelang (夜郎) and the Origins of the Name ‘China’ 26 free 187 April
2009Xiuqin ZhouUniversity of Pennsylvania Zhaoling: The Mausoleum of Emperor Tang Taizong 380 free 186 March
2009Doug Hitch
The Special Status of Turfan 61 free 185 Nov.
2008Jan RomgardStockholm University and the University of Nottingham Questions of Ancient Human Settlements in Xinjiang and the Early Silk Road Trade, with an Overview of the Silk Road Research Institutions and Scholars in Beijing, Gansu, and Xinjiang 118 free 184 Oct.
2008Xiang LiSeattle, Washington Irony Illustrated: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Situational Irony in China and the United States 59 free 183 Oct.
2008Chunwei SongPeking University Heroes Brought Buddhism to the East of the Sea: A Fully Annotated Translation of The Preface of Haedong Kosŭng Chŏn 38 free 182 Sept.
2008Aurelia Campbell, Jeffrey Rice, Daniel Sungbin Sou, and Lala ZuoUniversity of Pennsylvania The Cult of the Bodhisattva Guanyin in Early China and Korea 117 free 181 Aug.
2008Matteo ComparetiVenice, Italy Traces of Buddhist Art in Sogdiana 42 free 180 April
2008Amber R. Woodward A Survey of Li Yang Crazy English 71 free 179 Feb.
2008Julie M. GrovesHong Kong Baptist University Language or Dialect — or Topolect? A Comparison of the Attitudes of Hong Kongers and Mainland Chinese towards the Status of Cantonese 103 free 178 Feb.
2008Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Soldierly Methods: Vade Mecum for an Iconoclastic Translation of Sun Zi bingfa, with a complete transcription and word-for-word glosses of the Manchu translation by H. T. Toh xvi, 195 free 177 Aug.
2007Beverley DavisMerit, Texas Timeline of the Development of the Horse 186 free 176 May
2007Eric HenryUniversity of North Carolina The Submerged History of Yuè 36 free 175 Dec.
2006Zhou JixuCenter for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Chinese Department, Sichuan Normal University The Rise of Agricultural Civilization in China: The Disparity between Archeological Discovery and the Documentary Record and Its Explanation 38 free 174 Nov.
2006Mariko Namba Walter Sogdians and Buddhism 66 free 173 Oct.
2006Taishan YUChinese Academy of Social Sciences A Study of the History of the Relationship Between the Western and Eastern Han, Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Western Regions 166 free 172 Aug.
2006Deborah Beaser The Outlook for Taiwanese Language Preservation 18 free 171 June
2006John DeFrancisUniversity of Hawaii The Prospects for Chinese Writing Reform 24, 3 figs. free Prior to issue no. 171, Sino-Platonic Papers was originally published in hard-copy form. 170 Feb.
2006Amber R. WoodwardUniversity of Pennsylvania Learning English, Losing Face, and Taking Over: The Method (or Madness) of Li Yang and His Crazy English 18 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 169 Jan.
2006Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Conversion Tables for the Three-Volume Edition of the Hanyu Da Cidian i, 284 PDF: free;hard copy: $25.00 168 Dec.
2005Judith A. LernerNew York City Aspects of Assimilation: the Funerary Practices and Furnishings of Central Asians in China 51, v, 9 plates PDF: free;hard copy: $35.00 167 Dec.
2005ZHOU JixuSichuan Normal University Old Chinese ‘帝*tees’ and Proto-Indo-European ‘*deus’: Similarity in Religious Ideas and a Common Source in Linguistics 17 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 166 suppl. Nov.
2005Julie Lee WeiLondon Index to Chinese Characters in Sino-Platonic Papers nos. 161–166 21 PDF: free; 166 Nov.
2005Julie Lee WeiLondon
Hodong KimSeoul National University
and David Selvia and the Editorboth of the University of PennsylvaniaReviews XII i, 63 PDF: free;hard copy: $15.00 165 Oct.
2005Julie Lee WeiLondon DAO and DE: An Inquiry into the Linguistic Origins of Some Terms in Chinese Philosophy and Morality 51 PDF: free;hard copy: $14.00 164 Oct.
2005Julie Lee WeiLondon Shang and Zhou: An Inquiry into the Linguistic Origins of Two Dynastic Names 62 PDF: free;hard copy: $15.00 163 Oct.
2005Julie Lee WeiLondon Huangdi and Huntun (the Yellow Emperor and Wonton): A New Hypothesis on Some Figures in Chinese Mythology 44 PDF: free;hard copy: $14.00 162 Sept.
2005Julie Lee WeiLondon Counting and Knotting: Correspondences between Old Chinese and Indo-European 71, map PDF: free;hard copy: $16.50 161 Sept.
2005Julie Lee WeiLondon The Names of the Yi Jing Trigrams: An Inquiry into Their Linguistic Origins 18 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.00 160 Sept.
2005Matteo ComparetiVenice Literary Evidence for the Identification of Some Common Scenes in Han Funerary Art 14 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 159 Aug.
2005Jens Østergaard PetersenUniversity of Copenhagen The Zuozhuan Account of the Death of King Zhao of Chu and Its Sources 47 PDF: free;hard copy: $14.50 158 Aug.
2005Mark Edward LewisStanford University Writings on Warfare Found in Ancient Chinese Tombs 15 PDF: free;hard copy: $8.50 157 Aug.
2005Ralph D. SawyerIndependent Scholar Paradoxical Coexistence of Prognostication and Warfare 13 PDF: free;hard copy: $8.00 156 July
2005Abolqasem EsmailpourShahid Beheshti University, Tehran Manichean Gnosis and Creation 157 PDF: free;hard copy: $32.50 155 July
2005Denis MairSeattle Janus-Like Concepts in the Li and Kun Trigrams 8 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.00 154 July
2005Serge PapillonBelfort, France Mythologie sino-européenne 174, 1 plate PDF: free;hard copy: $24.50 153 July
2005Alan PiperLondon (UK) The Mysterious Origins of the Word “Marihuana” 17 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 152 June
2005Denis MairSeattle The Dance of Qian and Kun in the Zhouyi 13, 2 figs. PDF: free;hard copy: $6.00 151 June
2005Jane Jia SIUniversity of Pennsylvania The Genealogy of Dictionaries: Producers, Literary Audience, and the Circulation of English Texts in the Treaty Port of Shanghai 44, 4 tables PDF: free;hard copy: $15.50 150 May
2005Dolkun KamberiWashington, DC Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity 44 PDF: free;hard copy: $14.00 149 May
2005Kimberly S. Te WinkleUniversity College, London A Sacred Trinity: God, Mountain, and Bird: Cultic Practices of the Bronze Age Chengdu Plain ii, 103 (41 in color) PDF: free;hard copy: $55.00 148 April
2005Lucas ChristopoulosBeijing Sports University Le gréco-bouddhisme et l’art du poing en Chine 52 PDF: free;hard copy: $16.00 147 March
2005Hoong Teik TohAcademia Sinica Chinese Qiong ~ Tibetan Khyung; Taoism ~ Bonpo — Some Questions Related to Early Ethno-Religious History in Sichuan 18 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 146 Feb.
2005Hoong Teik TohAcademia Sinica The -yu Ending in Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Gaoju Onomastica 24 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 145 Aug.
2004the editor
Reviews XI 2, 41 PDF: free;hard copy: $13.50 144 July
2004RONG XinjiangPeking University Land Route or Sea Route? Commentary on the Study of the Paths of Transmission and Areas in which Buddhism Was Disseminated during the Han Period 32 PDF: free;hard copy: $12.50 143 July
2004Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Sleep in Dream: Soporific Responses to Depression in Story of the Stone 99 PDF: free;hard copy: $20.00 142 July
2004Katheryn Linduff, ed.University of Pittsburgh Silk Road Exchange in China 64 PDF: free;hard copy: $16.00 141 July
2004Yinpo TschangNew York City Chaos in Heaven: On the Calendars of Preclassical China 30 PDF: free;hard copy: $12.00 140 June
2004Yinpo TschangNew York City Shih and Zong: Social Organization in Bronze Age China 28 PDF: free;hard copy: $11.50 139 June
2004Taishan YuChinese Academy of Social Sciences A Hypothesis on the Origin of the Yu State 20 PDF: free;hard copy: $10.50 138 June
2004Julie Lee WeiSan Jose and London Dogs and Cats: Lessons from Learning Chinese 17 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 137 June
2004Hoong Teik TohHarvard University Some Classical Malay Materials for the Study of the Chinese Novel Journey to the West 64 PDF: free;hard copy: $15.00 136 May
2004Serge PapillonMouvaux, France and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Influences tokhariennes sur la mythologie chinoise 47 PDF: free;hard copy: $14.50 135 May
2004John J. EmersonPortland, Oregon The Secret History of the Mongols and Western Literature 21 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 134 May
2004Xieyan HinchaNeumädewitz, Germany Two Steps Toward Digraphia in China i, 22 PDF: free;hard copy: $10.00 133 April
2004John L. SorensonBrigham Young University
Carl L. JohannessenUniversity of OregonScientific Evidence for Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages 48, 166, 19, 15 plates PDF: free;CD-ROM: $15.50 132 April
2004Kim HayesSydney On the Presence of Non-Chinese at Anyang 11 PDF: free;hard copy: $6.50 131 March
2004Taishan YuChinese Academy of Social Sciences A History of the Relationship between the Western and Eastern Han, Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Western Regions iii, 378 PDF: free;hard copy: $55.00 130 Feb.
2004Bede FaheyFort St. John, British Columbia Mayan: A Sino-Tibetan Language?A Comparative Study 61 PDF: free;hard copy: $15.00 129 Dec.
2003Michael WitzelHarvard University Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric Western Central Asia 70 PDF: free;hard copy: $16.90 128 Nov.
2003Yinpo TschangNew York City On Proto-Shang 18 PDF: free;hard copy: $10.00 127 Oct.
2003Sundeep S. JhuttiPetaluma, California The Getes 125, 8 color plates PDF: free;hard copy: $37.50 126 Aug.
2003Tim MillerUniversity of Washington A Southern Min Word in the Tsu-t’ang chi 14 PDF: free;hard copy: $8.00 125 July
2003ZHOU JixuSichuan Normal University
Shanghai Normal UniversityCorrespondences of Cultural Words between Old Chinese and Proto-Indo-European 19 PDF: free;hard copy: $10.00 124 Aug.
2002Fredrik T. HiebertUniversity of Pennsylvania
John ColarussoMcMaster UniversityThe Context of the Anau Seal
Remarks on the Anau and Niyä Seals1-34
35-47PDF: free;hard copy: $16.50 123 Aug.
2002Paul R. Goldin and the editor Reviews X 30 PDF: free;hard copy: $11.00 122 July
2002Julie WilenskyYale Univesity The Magical Kunlun and “Devil Slaves”: Chinese Perceptions of Dark-skinned People and Africa before 1500 51, 3 figs. PDF: free;hard copy: $17.00 121 July
2002Mark Edward LewisStanford University Dicing and Divination in Early China 22, 7 figs. PDF: free;hard copy: $10.50 120 July
2002Anne BirrellUniversity of Cambridge, Clare Hall Female-Gendered Myth in the Classic of Mountains and Seas 47 PDF: free;hard copy: $16.50 119 July
2002WU ZhenXinjiang Museum, Ürümchi “Hu” Non-Chinese as They Appear in the Materials from the Astana Graveyard at Turfan 21, 5 figs. PDF: free;hard copy: $18.00 118 June
2002Justine T. SnowPort Townsend, WA Evidence for the Indo-European Origin of Two Ancient Chinese Deities ii, 75, 1 color, 1 b-w print PDF: free;hard copy: $18.00 117 May
2002SHANG WeiColumbia University Baihua, Guanhua, Fangyan and the May Fourth Reading of Rulin Waishi 10 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.50 116 May
2002LIU YongquanInstitute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences On the Problem of Chinese Lettered Words 13 PDF: free;hard copy: $6.00 115 April
2002ZHOU JixuSichuan Normal University Correspondences of Basic Words Between Old Chinese and Proto-Indo-European 8 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.00 114 March
2002Ramnath SubbaramanUniversity of Chicago Beyond the Question of the Monkey Imposter: Indian Influence on the Chinese Novel, The Journey to the West 35 PDF: free;hard copy: $12.50 113 Aug.
2001Ray CollinsChepachet, RI
David KerrMelbourne, FLEtymology of the Word “Macrobiotic:s” and Its Use in Modern Chinese Scholarship 18 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 112 July
2001Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Notes on the Anau Inscription xi, 93 PDF: free;hard copy: $18.00 111 Nov.
2000Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania The Need for a New Era 10 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.00 110 Oct.
2000Toh Hoong TeikHarvard University Shaykh ’Alam: The Emperor of Early Sixteenth-Century China 20 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 109 Oct.
2000Conán Dean CareyStanford University In Hell the One without Sin is Lord ii, 60 PDF: free;hard copy: $14.50 108 Sept.
2000Ruth H. ChangUniversity of Pennsylvania Understanding Di and Tian: Deity and Heaven From Shang to Tang vii, 54 PDF: free;hard copy: $14.50 107 Sept.
2000Jacques deLisle, Adelheid E. Krohne, and the editor Reviews IX 148 + map PDF: free;hard copy: $25.00 106 Sept.
2000Yu TaishanChinese Academy of Social Sciences A Hypothesis about the Sources of the Sai Tribes i, 3, 200 PDF: free;hard copy: $30.00 105 Aug.
2000Anne BirrellCambridge University Postmodernist Theory in Recent Studies of Chinese Literature 31 PDF: free;hard copy: $12.50 104 July
2000David W. PankenierLehigh University Popular Astrology and Border Affairs in Early China 19 + 1 color plate PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 103 June
2000Carrie E. ReidMiddlebury College Early Chinese Tattoo 52 PDF: free;hard copy: $15.00 102 March
2000Theresa JenBryn Mawr College
Ping XuBaruch CollegePenless Chinese Character Reproduction 15 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.00 101 March
2000C. Michele ThompsonSouth Connecticut State University The Viêt Peoples and the Origins of Nom 71, 1 PDF: free;hard copy: $18.50 100 Feb.
2000Wayne AltCommunity College of Baltimore County (Essex) Zhuangzi, Mysticism, and the Rejection of Distinctions 29 PDF: free;hard copy: $11.50 99 Feb.
2000Anthony Barbieri-LowPrinceton University Wheeled Vehicles in the Chinese Bronze Age (c. 2000–741 BC) v, 98 + 5 color plates PDF: free;hard copy: $33.50 98 Jan.
2000Peter Daniels, Daniel Boucher, and other authors Reviews VIII 108 PDF: free;hard copy: $18.00 97 Dec.
1999LI ShuichengPeking University A Discussion of Sino-Western Cultural Contacts and Exchange in the Second Millennium B.C. Based on Recent Archaeological Discoveries iv, 29 PDF: free;hard copy: $13.00 96 June
1999E. Bruce BrooksUniversity of Massachusetts Alexandrian Motifs in Chinese Texts 14 PDF: free;hard copy: $7.00 95 May
1999Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania A Medieval, Central Asian Buddhist Theme in a Late Ming Taoist Tale by Feng Meng-lung 27 PDF: free;hard copy: $11.50 94 March
1999Julie Lee WeiHoover Institute Correspondences Between the Chinese Calendar Signs and the Phoenician Alphabet 65 + 6 PDF: free;hard copy: $16.00 93 Jan.
1999David S. NivisonStanford University The Key to the Chronology of the Three Dynasties: The “Modern Text” Bamboo Annals iv + 68 PDF: free;hard copy: $15.50 92 Jan.
1999Christine Louise LinDartmouth College The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the Advocacy of Local Autonomy xiii + 136 PDF: free;hard copy: $26.00 91 Jan.
1999Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Phonosymbolism or Etymology: The Case of the Verb “Cop” 28 PDF: free;hard copy: $11.00 90 Jan.
1999Victor H. Mair et al Reviews VII [including review of The Original Analects] 2, 38 PDF: free;hard copy: $12.00 89 Jan.
1999Alvin LinYale University Writing Taiwanese: The Development of Modern Written Taiwanese 4 + 41 + 4 PDF: free;hard copy: $14.50 88 Dec.
1998Saroj Kumar ChaudhuriAichi Gakusen University Siddham in China and Japan 9, 124 PDF: free;hard copy: $27.00 87 Nov.
1998Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Canine Conundrums: Eurasian Dog Ancestor Myths in Historical and Ethnic Perspective 74 PDF: free;hard copy: $16.50 86 Oct.
1998Jidong YangUniversity of Pennsylvania Siba: Bronze Age Culture of the Gansu Corridor 18 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.00 85 Oct.
1998Mariko Namba WalterUniversity of New England Tokharian Buddhism in Kucha: Buddhism of Indo-European Centum Speakers in Chinese Turkestan before the 10th Century C.E. 30 PDF: free;hard copy: $11.50 84 Oct.
1998Ulf JägerGronau/Westfalen, Germany The New Old Mummies from Eastern Central Asia: Ancestors of the Tocharian Knights Depicted on the Buddhist Wallpaintings of Kucha and Turfan? Some Circumstantial Evidence 9 PDF: free;hard copy: $8.50 83 Oct.
1998Minglang ZhouUniversity of Colorado at Boulder Tense/Aspect markers in Mandarin and Xiang dialects, and their contact 20 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 82 Sept.
1998I. S. GurevichRussian Academy of Sciences A Fragment of a pien-wen(?) Related to the Cycle “On Buddha’s Life” 15 PDF: free;hard copy: $8.50 81 Sept.
1998Hera S. WalkerUrsinus College (Philadelphia) Indigenous or Foreign?: A Look at the Origins of the Monkey Hero Sun Wukong iv + 110 PDF: free;hard copy: $24.50 80 July
1998Taishan YuChinese Academy of Social Sciences A Study of Saka History ii + 225 PDF: free;hard copy: $32.00 79 March
1998Dennis GrafflinBates College A Southeast Asian Voice in the Daodejing? 8 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.50 78 Feb.
1998NarsuInner Mongolia College of Agriculture & Animal Husbandry
Kevin StuartQinghai Junior Teachers’ CollegePractical Mongolian Sentences (With English Translation) iii + 49 + ii + 66 PDF: free;hard copy: $23.00 77 Jan.
1998Daniel HsiehPurdue University The Origin and Nature of the “Nineteen Old Poems” 49 PDF: free;hard copy: $14.00 76 Feb.
1997Patricia Eichenbaum KaretzkyBard College The Evolution of the Symbolism of the Paradise of the Buddha of Infinite Life and Its Western Origins 28 PDF: free;hard copy: $11.00 75 Feb.
1997Haun SaussyStanford University The Prestige of Writing: Wen2, Letter, Picture, Image, Ideography 40 PDF: free;hard copy: $13.00 74 Jan.
1997David MoserUniversity of Michigan & Beijing Foreign Studies University Covert Sexism in Mandarin Chinese 23 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 73 June
1996ZHANG Juan, et al., and Kevin StuartQinghai, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Henan, Liaoning Blue Cloth and Pearl Deer; Yogur Folklore iii, 76 PDF: free;hard copy: $18.00 72 May
1996E. Bruce BrooksUniversity of Massachusetts The Life and Mentorship of Confucius 44 PDF: free;hard copy: $13.50 71 March
1996Erik ZürcherLeiden University
Seishi KarashimaSoka University
Huanming QinTang Studies HotlineVernacularisms in Medieval Chinese Texts 31 + 11 + 8 PDF: free;hard copy: $15.00 70 Feb.
1996David Utz, Xinru Liu, Taylor Carman, Bryan Van Norden, and the EditorPhiladelphia, Vassar, etc. Reviews VI 93 PDF: free;hard copy: $20.00 69 Jan.
1996Dpal-ldan-bkra-shis, Keith Slater, et al.Qinghai, Santa Barbara, etc. Language Materials of China’s Monguor Minority: Huzhu Mongghul and Minhe Mangghuer xi, 266 PDF: free;hard copy: $40.00 68 May
1995Ke Peng, Yanshi ZhuUniversity of Chicago and Tokyo, Japan New Research on the Origin of Cowries Used in Ancient China i, 26 PDF: free;hard copy: $10.00 67 April
1995David McCrawUniversity of Hawaii Pursuing Zhuangzi as a Rhymester: A Snark-Hunt in Eight Fits 38 PDF: free;hard copy: $10.50 66 March
1995ZHU QingzhiSichuan University and Peking University Some Linguistic Evidence for Early Cultural Exchange Between China and India 7 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.00 65 Feb.
1995Penglin WangChinese University of Hong Kong Indo-European Loanwords in Altaic 28 PDF: free;hard copy: $11.00 64 Jan.
1995Arne ØstmoeBangkok, Thailand, and Drøbak, Norway A Germanic-Tai Linguistic Puzzle 81, 6 PDF: free;hard copy: $17.00 63 Dec.
1994Sarah M. NelsonUniversity of Denver The Development of Complexity in Prehistoric North China 17 PDF: free;hard copy: $7.00 62 Dec.
1994William C. HannasGeorgetown University Reflections on the “Unity” of Spoken and Written Chinese and Academic Learning in China 5 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.00 61 Dec.
1994Kevin Stuart and Li XueweiQinghai Junior Teachers College, Xining, Kokonor (Qinghai) Tales from China’s Forest Hunters: Oroqen Folktales iv, 59 PDF: free;hard copy: $14.00 60 Dec.
1994Kevin Stuart, Li Xuewei, and ShelearQinghai Junior Teachers College, Xining, Kokonor (Qinghai) China’s Dagur Minority: Society, Shamanism, and Folklore vii, 167 PDF: free;hard copy: $26.50 59 Dec.
1994Kevin StuartQinghai Junior Teachers College;
LimusishidenQinghai Medical College Attached Hospital, Xining, Kokonor (Qinghai)China’s Monguor Minority: Ethnography and Folktales i, I, 193 PDF: free;hard copy: $28.50 58 Nov.
1994Üjiyediin Chuluu (Chaolu Wu)University of Toronto Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Baoan 28 PDF: free;hard copy: $8.50 57 Nov.
1994Üjiyediin Chuluu (Chaolu Wu)University of Toronto Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Monguor 31 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.00 56 Nov.
1994Üjiyediin Chuluu (Chaolu Wu)University of Toronto Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Dagur 36 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 55 Nov.
1994Üjiyediin Chuluu (Chaolu Wu)University of Toronto Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Dongxiang 34 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.00 54 Nov.
1994Üjiyediin Chuluu (Chaolu Wu)University of Toronto Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Jegün Yogur 34 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.00 53 Nov.
1994XU WenkanEditorial Offices of the Hanyu Da Cidian Shanghai Guanyu Tuhuoluoren de Qiyuan he Qianxi Wenti [On the Problem of the Origins and Migrations of the Tocharians] 11 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.00 52 Nov.
1994Warren A. ShiblesUniversity of Wisconsin Whitewater Chinese Romanization Systems: IPA Transliteration 20 PDF: free;hard copy: $7.00 51 Nov.
1994HAN KangxinInstitute of Archeology Chinese Academy of Social Sciences The Study of Ancient Human Skeletons from Xinjiang, China 9 + 4 figs. PDF: free;hard copy: $6.00 50 Nov.
1994YIN BinyongState Language Commission and Institute for Applied Linguistics (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Diyi ge Lading Zimu de Hanyu Pinyin Fang’an Shi Zenyang Chansheng de? [How Was the First Romanized Spelling System for Sinitic Produced?] 7 PDF: free;hard copy: $4.00 49 Oct.
1994Ludo RocherUniversity of Pennsylvania Orality and Textuality in the Indian Context 28 PDF: free;hard copy: $7.00 48 Sept.
1994Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Introduction and Notes for a Complete Translation of the Chuang Tzu xxxiv, 110 PDF: free;hard copy: $21.50 47 Aug.
1994Robert S. BauerMahidol University Salaya Nakornpathom, Thailand Sino-Tibetan *kolo “Wheel” 11 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.00 46 July
1994various Reviews (V) 2, 155 PDF: free;hard copy: $24.00 45 May
1994Mark HansellCarleton College The Sino-Alphabet: The Assimilation of Roman Letters into the Chinese Writing System 28 PDF: free;hard copy: $8.00 44 Jan.
1994Dolkun KamberiColumbia University The Three Thousand Year Old Charchan Man Preserved at Zaghunluq 15 PDF: free;hard copy: $7.50 43 Dec.
1993MA Quanlin, MA Wanxiang, and MA ZhichengXining
Edited by Kevin StuartKokonorSalar Language Materials 72 PDF: free;hard copy: $16.50 42 Nov.
1993Renchin-Jashe YulshulTibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Kokonor (Qinghai)
and Kevin StuartInstitute of Foreign Languages, Ulaanbaatar, MongoliaKham Tibetan Language Materials 39 PDF: free;hard copy: $9.50 41 Oct.
1993Paul GoldinHarvard University Miching Mallecho: The Zhanguo ce and Classical Rhetoric 27 PDF: free;hard copy: $7.50 40 Sept.
1993Michael CarrCenter for Language Studies, Otaru University of Commerce Tiao-Fish through Chinese Dictionaries 68 PDF: free;hard copy: $15.50 39 Aug.
1993Jordan PaperYork University A Material Case for a Late Bering Strait Crossing Coincident with Pre-Columbian Trans-Pacific Crossings 17 PDF: free;hard copy: $6.50 38 April
1993Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania The Linguistic and Textual Antecedents of The Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish 95 PDF: free;hard copy: $18.00 37 March
1993Tanya StorchUniversity of New Mexico Chinese Buddhist Historiography and Orality 16 PDF: free;hard copy: $6.00 36 Feb.
1993XU WenkanHanyu Da Cidian editorial offices, Shanghai Hanyu Wailaici de Yuyuan Kaozheng he Cidian Bianzuan (Philological Research on the Etymology of Loanwords in Sinitic and Dictionary Compilation) 13 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.00 35 Nov.
1992Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania
with an added note by Edwin G. PulleyblankReviews (IV) 37 PDF: free;hard copy: $12.00 34 Oct.
1992Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Two Papers on Sinolinguistics 13 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.00 33 Sept.
1992FENG Lide and Kevin StuartChuankou No. 1 Middle School and Qinghai Education College Interethnic Contact on the Inner Asian Frontier: The Gangou People of Minhe County, Qinghai 34 PDF: free;hard copy: $10.00 32 Aug.
1992David McCrawUniversity of Hawaii How the Chinawoman Lost Her Voice 27 PDF: free;hard copy: $6.50 31 Oct.
1991various Reviews (III) 68 PDF: free;hard copy: $14.00 30 Oct.
1991M. V. SofronovInstitute of Far Eastern Studies, Academy of Sciences, Moscow Chinese Philology and the Scripts of Central Asia 10 PDF: free;hard copy: $4.50 29 Sept.
1991Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania What Is a Chinese “Dialect/Topolect”? Reflections on Some Key Sino-English Linguistic Terms Also available as a PDF.) 31 PDF: free;hard copy: $8.00 28 Sept.
1991ZHOU YouguangState Language Commission, Peking The Family of Chinese Character-Type Scripts: Twenty Members and Four Stages of Development (Also available as a 650 KB PDF.) 11 PDF: free;hard copy: $4.00 27 Aug.
1991Victor H. Mair, ed.University of Pennsylvania Schriftfestschrift: Essays in Honor of John DeFrancis on His Eightieth Birthday ix, 245 PDF: free;hard copy: $35.00 26 Sept.
1991JAO Tsung-iChinese University of Hong Kong Questions on the Origins of Writing Raised by the Silk Road 10 PDF: free;hard copy: $4.50 25 Aug.
1991Jean DeBernardiUniversity of Alberta Linguistic Nationalism: The Case of Southern Min 22 + 3 figs. PDF: free;hard copy: $6.00 24 Aug.
1991David A. UtzUniversity of Pennsylvania Language, Writing, and Tradition in Iran 24 PDF: free;hard copy: $6.50 23 April
1991Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Tracks of the Tao, Semantics of Zen 10 PDF: free;hard copy: $3.50 22 March
1991David MoserUniversity of Michigan Slips of the Tongue and Pen in Chinese 45 PDF: free;hard copy: $8.50 21 Dec.
1990Philippa Jane BensonCarnegie Mellon University Two Cross-Cultural Studies on Reading Theory 9, 13 PDF: free;hard copy: $8.50 20 Oct.
1990Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania [The] File [on the Cosmic] Track [and Individual] Dough[tiness]: Introduction and Notes for a Translation of the Ma-wang-tui Manuscripts of the Lao Tzu 68 PDF: free;hard copy: $13.50 19 June
1990Bosat ManNalanda Backhill/Peking/Beijing 6 PDF: free;hard copy: $2.50 18 May
1990Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Two Non-Tetragraphic Northern Sinitic Languages 28 PDF: free;hard copy: $7.00 17 April
1990Heather PetersUniversity Museum of Philadelphia Tattooed Faces and Stilt Houses: Who Were the Ancient Yue? 28 PDF: free;hard copy: $4.50 16 March
1990Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania Three Brief Essays Concerning Chinese Tocharistan 16 PDF: free;hard copy: $5.50 15 Jan.
1990George CardonaUniversity of Pennsylvania On Attitudes Toward Language in Ancient India 19 PDF: free;hard copy: $3.50 14 Dec.
1989various Reviews (II) 69 PDF: free;hard copy: $7.50 13 Oct.
1989Jiaosheng WangShanghai The Complete Ci-Poems of Li Qingzhao: A New English Translation xii, 122 PDF: free;hard copy: $18.00 12 Aug.
1989Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania The Contributions of T’ang and Five Dynasties Transformation Texts (pien-wen) to Later Chinese Popular Literature 71 PDF: free;hard copy: $12.00 11 July
1989Edward ShaughnessyUniversity of Chicago Western Cultural Innovations in China, 1200 BC 8 PDF: free;hard copy: $2.00 10 June
1989Pratoom AngurarohitaChulalongkorn University Bangkok Buddhist Influence on the Neo-Confucian Concept of the Sage (Also available in PDF format.) 31 PDF: free;hard copy: $6.00 9 Dec.
1988Soho MachidaDaitoku-ji, Kyoto Life and Light, the Infinite: A Historical and Philological Analysis of the Amida Cult 46 PDF: free;hard copy: $7.50 8 Feb.
1988various Reviews (I) ii, 39 PDF: free;hard copy: $7.50 7 Jan.
1988Chang Tsung-tungGoethe-Universität Indo-European Vocabulary in Old Chinese i, 56 PDF: free;hard copy: $10.00 6 Jan.
1988J. Marshall UngerUniversity of Hawaii Computers and Japanese Literacy: Nihonzin no Yomikaki Nôryoku to Konpyûta. This is a parallel text in Japanese (in romanization) and English. The English text alone is available in HTML: Computers and Japanese Literacy. 13 PDF: free;hard copy: $3.00 5 Dec.
1987Eric A. HavelockVassar College Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet (Also available in PDF format.) 4 PDF: free;hard copy: $2.00 4 Nov.
1987Robert M. SandersUniversity of Hawaii The Four Languages of “Mandarin” (Also available in PDF format) 14 PDF: free;hard copy: $2.00 3 March
1987Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania A Partial Bibliography for the Study of Indian Influence on Chinese Popular Literature iv, 214 PDF: free;hard copy: $20.00 2 Dec.
1986Andrew JonesHiroshima The Poetics of Uncertainty in Early Chinese Literature 45 PDF: free;hard copy: $3.00 1 Feb.
1986Victor H. MairUniversity of Pennsylvania The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: A Review Article of Some Recent Dictionaries and Current Lexicographical Projects 31 PDF: free;hard copy: $2.50 # Date Author
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