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public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished.
For the most recent issues, see the bottom of the list.
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. The issues will continue to be available on the Web; you are welcome to print a copy for yourself or your library.
| # | Date | Author | Title | Pp | Price |
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| 1 | Feb. 1986 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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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 |
| 2 | Dec. 1986 |
Andrew Jones
Hiroshima
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The Poetics of Uncertainty in Early Chinese Literature | 45 | PDF: free; hard copy: $3.00 |
| 3 | March 1987 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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A Partial Bibliography for the Study of Indian Influence on Chinese Popular Literature | iv, 214 | PDF: free; hard copy: $20.00 |
| 4 | Nov. 1987 |
Robert M. Sanders
University of Hawaii
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The Four Languages of “Mandarin” (Also available in PDF format) | 14 | PDF: free; hard copy: $2.00 |
| 5 | Dec. 1987 |
Eric A. Havelock
Vassar College
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Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet (Also available in PDF format.) | 4 | PDF: free; hard copy: $2.00 |
| 6 | Jan. 1988 |
J. Marshall Unger
University of Hawaii
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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 |
| 7 | Jan. 1988 |
Chang Tsung-tung
Goethe-Universität
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Indo-European Vocabulary in Old Chinese | i, 56 | PDF: free; hard copy: $10.00 |
| 8 | Feb. 1988 | various | Reviews (I) | ii, 39 | PDF: free; hard copy: $7.50 |
| 9 | Dec. 1988 |
Soho Machida
Daitoku-ji, Kyoto
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Life and Light, the Infinite: A Historical and Philological Analysis of the Amida Cult | 46 | PDF: free; hard copy: $7.50 |
| 10 | June 1989 |
Pratoom Angurarohita
Chulalongkorn University Bangkok
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Buddhist Influence on the Neo-Confucian Concept of the Sage (Also available in PDF format.) | 31 | PDF: free; hard copy: $6.00 |
| 11 | July 1989 |
Edward Shaughnessy
University of Chicago
|
Western Cultural Innovations in China, 1200 BC (790 KB PDF) | 8 | PDF: free; hard copy: $2.00 |
| 12 | Aug. 1989 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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The Contributions of T’ang and Five Dynasties Transformation Texts (pien-wen) to Later Chinese Popular Literature | 71 | PDF: free; hard copy: $12.00 |
| 13 | Oct. 1989 |
Jiaosheng Wang
Shanghai
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The Complete Ci-Poems of Li Qingzhao: A New English Translation | xii, 122 | PDF: free; hard copy: $18.00 |
| 14 | Dec. 1989 | various | Reviews (II) | 69 | PDF: free; hard copy: $7.50 |
| 15 | Jan. 1990 |
George Cardona
University of Pennsylvania
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On Attitudes Toward Language in Ancient India | 19 | PDF: free; hard copy: $3.50 |
| 16 | March 1990 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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Three Brief Essays Concerning Chinese Tocharistan | 16 | PDF: free; hard copy: $5.50 |
| 17 | April 1990 |
Heather Peters
University Museum of Philadelphia
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Tattooed Faces and Stilt Houses: Who Were the Ancient Yue? | 28 | PDF: free; hard copy: $4.50 |
| 18 | May 1990 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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Two Non-Tetragraphic Northern Sinitic Languages | 28 | PDF: free; hard copy: $7.00 |
| 19 | June 1990 |
Bosat Man
Nalanda
|
Backhill/Peking/Beijing | 6 | PDF: free; hard copy: $2.50 |
| 20 | Oct. 1990 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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[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 |
| 21 | Dec. 1990 |
Philippa Jane Benson
Carnegie Mellon University
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Two Cross-Cultural Studies on Reading Theory | 9, 13 | PDF: free; hard copy: $8.50 |
| 22 | March 1991 |
David Moser
University of Michigan
|
Slips of the Tongue and Pen in Chinese | 45 | PDF: free; hard copy: $8.50 |
| 23 | April 1991 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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Tracks of the Tao, Semantics of Zen | 10 | PDF: free; hard copy: $3.50 |
| 24 | Aug. 1991 |
David A. Utz
University of Pennsylvania
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Language, Writing, and Tradition in Iran | 24 | PDF: free; hard copy: $6.50 |
| 25 | Aug. 1991 |
Jean DeBernardi
University of Alberta
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Linguistic Nationalism: The Case of Southern Min | 22 + 3 figs. | PDF: free; hard copy: $6.00 |
| 26 | Sept. 1991 |
JAO Tsung-i
Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Questions on the Origins of Writing Raised by the Silk Road | 10 | PDF: free; hard copy: $4.50 |
| 27 | Aug. 1991 |
Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
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Schriftfestschrift: Essays in Honor of John DeFrancis on His Eightieth Birthday | ix, 245 | PDF: free; hard copy: $35.00 |
| 28 | Sept. 1991 |
ZHOU Youguang
State Language Commission, Peking
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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 |
| 29 | Sept. 1991 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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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 |
| 30 | Oct. 1991 |
M. V. Sofronov
Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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Chinese Philology and the Scripts of Central Asia | 10 | PDF: free; hard copy: $4.50 |
| 31 | Oct. 1991 | various | Reviews (III) | 68 | PDF: free; hard copy: $14.00 |
| 32 | Aug. 1992 |
David McCraw
University of Hawaii
|
How the Chinawoman Lost Her Voice | 27 | PDF: free; hard copy: $6.50 |
| 33 | Sept. 1992 |
FENG Lide and Kevin Stuart
Chuankou 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 |
| 34 | Oct. 1992 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
|
Two Papers on Sinolinguistics | 13 | PDF: free; hard copy: $5.00 |
| 35 | Nov. 1992 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
with an added note by Edwin G. Pulleyblank
|
Reviews (IV) | 37 | PDF: free; hard copy: $12.00 |
| 36 | Feb. 1993 |
XU Wenkan
Hanyu Da Cidian editorial offices, Shanghai
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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 |
| 37 | March 1993 |
Tanya Storch
University of New Mexico
|
Chinese Buddhist Historiography and Orality | 16 | PDF: free; hard copy: $6.00 |
| 38 | April 1993 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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The Linguistic and Textual Antecedents of The Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish | 95 | PDF: free; hard copy: $18.00 |
| 39 | Aug. 1993 |
Jordan Paper
York University
|
A Material Case for a Late Bering Strait Crossing Coincident with Pre-Columbian Trans-Pacific Crossings | 17 | PDF: free; hard copy: $6.50 |
| 40 | Sept. 1993 |
Michael Carr
Center for Language Studies, Otaru University of Commerce
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Tiao-Fish through Chinese Dictionaries | 68 | PDF: free; hard copy: $15.50 |
| 41 | Oct. 1993 |
Paul Goldin
Harvard University
|
Miching Mallecho: The Zhanguo ce and Classical Rhetoric | 27 | PDF: free; hard copy: $7.50 |
| 42 | Nov. 1993 |
Renchin-Jashe Yulshul
Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Kokonor (Qinghai)
and Kevin Stuart
Institute of Foreign Languages, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
|
Kham Tibetan Language Materials | 39 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 43 | Dec. 1993 |
MA Quanlin, MA Wanxiang, and MA Zhicheng
Xining
Edited by Kevin Stuart
Kokonor
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Salar Language Materials | 72 | PDF: free; hard copy: $16.50 |
| 44 | Jan. 1994 |
Dolkun Kamberi
Columbia University
|
The Three Thousand Year Old Charchan Man Preserved at Zaghunluq | 15 | PDF: free; hard copy: $7.50 |
| 45 | May 1994 |
Mark Hansell
Carleton College
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The Sino-Alphabet: The Assimilation of Roman Letters into the Chinese Writing System | 28 | PDF: free; hard copy: $8.00 |
| 46 | July 1994 | various | Reviews (V) | 2, 155 | PDF: free; hard copy: $24.00 |
| 47 | Aug. 1994 |
Robert S. Bauer
Mahidol University Salaya Nakornpathom, Thailand
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Sino-Tibetan *kolo “Wheel” | 11 | PDF: free; hard copy: $5.00 |
| 48 | Sept. 1994 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
|
Introduction and Notes for a Complete Translation of the Chuang Tzu | xxxiv, 110 | PDF: free; hard copy: $21.50 |
| 49 | Oct. 1994 |
Ludo Rocher
University of Pennsylvania
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Orality and Textuality in the Indian Context | 28 | PDF: free; hard copy: $7.00 |
| 50 | Nov. 1994 |
YIN Binyong
State Language Commission and Institute for Applied Linguistics (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
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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 |
| 51 | Nov. 1994 |
HAN Kangxin
Institute 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 |
| 52 | Nov. 1994 |
Warren A. Shibles
University of Wisconsin Whitewater
|
Chinese Romanization Systems: IPA Transliteration | 20 | PDF: free; hard copy: $7.00 |
| 53 | Nov. 1994 |
XU Wenkan
Editorial Offices of the Hanyu Da Cidian Shanghai
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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 |
| 54 | Nov. 1994 |
Üjiyediin Chuluu (Chaolu Wu)
University of Toronto
|
Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Jegün Yogur | 34 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.00 |
| 55 | Nov. 1994 |
Üjiyediin Chuluu (Chaolu Wu)
University of Toronto
|
Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Dongxiang | 34 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.00 |
| 56 | Nov. 1994 |
Üjiyediin Chuluu (Chaolu Wu)
University of Toronto
|
Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Dagur | 36 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 57 | Nov. 1994 |
Üjiyediin Chuluu (Chaolu Wu)
University of Toronto
|
Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Monguor | 31 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.00 |
| 58 | Nov. 1994 |
Üjiyediin Chuluu (Chaolu Wu)
University of Toronto
|
Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Baoan | 28 | PDF: free; hard copy: $8.50 |
| 59 | Dec. 1994 |
Kevin Stuart
Qinghai Junior Teachers College;
Limusishiden
Qinghai Medical College Attached Hospital, Xining, Kokonor (Qinghai)
|
China’s Monguor Minority: Ethnography and Folktales | i, I, 193 | PDF: free; hard copy: $28.50 |
| 60 | Dec. 1994 |
Kevin Stuart, Li Xuewei, and Shelear
Qinghai Junior Teachers College, Xining, Kokonor (Qinghai)
|
China’s Dagur Minority: Society, Shamanism, and Folklore | vii, 167 | PDF: free; hard copy: $26.50 |
| 61 | Dec. 1994 |
Kevin Stuart and Li Xuewei
Qinghai Junior Teachers College, Xining, Kokonor (Qinghai)
|
Tales from China’s Forest Hunters: Oroqen Folktales | iv, 59 | PDF: free; hard copy: $14.00 |
| 62 | Dec. 1994 |
William C. Hannas
Georgetown University
|
Reflections on the “Unity” of Spoken and Written Chinese and Academic Learning in China | 5 | PDF: free; hard copy: $5.00 |
| 63 | Dec. 1994 |
Sarah M. Nelson
University of Denver
|
The Development of Complexity in Prehistoric North China | 17 | PDF: free; hard copy: $7.00 |
| 64 | Jan. 1995 |
Arne Østmoe
Bangkok, Thailand, and Drøbak, Norway
|
A Germanic-Tai Linguistic Puzzle | 81, 6 | PDF: free; hard copy: $17.00 |
| 65 | Feb. 1995 |
Penglin Wang
Chinese University of Hong Kong
|
Indo-European Loanwords in Altaic | 28 | PDF: free; hard copy: $11.00 |
| 66 | March 1995 |
ZHU Qingzhi
Sichuan University and Peking University
|
Some Linguistic Evidence for Early Cultural Exchange Between China and India | 7 | PDF: free; hard copy: $5.00 |
| 67 | April 1995 |
David McCraw
University of Hawaii
|
Pursuing Zhuangzi as a Rhymester: A Snark-Hunt in Eight Fits | 38 | PDF: free; hard copy: $10.50 |
| 68 | May 1995 |
Ke Peng, Yanshi Zhu
University of Chicago and Tokyo, Japan
|
New Research on the Origin of Cowries Used in Ancient China | i, 26 | PDF: free; hard copy: $10.00 |
| 69 | Jan. 1996 |
Dpal-ldan-bkra-shis, Keith Slater, et al.
Qinghai, Santa Barbara, etc.
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Language Materials of China’s Monguor Minority: Huzhu Mongghul and Minhe Mangghuer | xi, 266 | PDF: free; hard copy: $40.00 |
| 70 | Feb. 1996 |
David Utz, Xinru Liu, Taylor Carman, Bryan Van Norden, and the Editor
Philadelphia, Vassar, etc.
|
Reviews VI | 93 | PDF: free; hard copy: $20.00 |
| 71 | March 1996 |
Erik Zürcher
Leiden University
Seishi Karashima
Soka University
Huanming Qin
Tang Studies Hotline
|
Vernacularisms in Medieval Chinese Texts | 31 + 11 + 8 | PDF: free; hard copy: $15.00 |
| 72 | May 1996 |
E. Bruce Brooks
University of Massachusetts
|
The Life and Mentorship of Confucius | 44 | PDF: free; hard copy: $13.50 |
| 73 | June 1996 |
ZHANG Juan, et al., and Kevin Stuart
Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Henan, Liaoning
|
Blue Cloth and Pearl Deer; Yogur Folklore | iii, 76 | PDF: free; hard copy: $18.00 |
| 74 | Jan. 1997 |
David Moser
University of Michigan & Beijing Foreign Studies University
|
Covert Sexism in Mandarin Chinese | 23 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 75 | Feb. 1997 |
Haun Saussy
Stanford University
|
The Prestige of Writing: Wen2, Letter, Picture, Image, Ideography | 40 | PDF: free; hard copy: $13.00 |
| 76 | Feb. 1997 |
Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Bard 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 |
| 77 | Jan. 1998 |
Daniel Hsieh
Purdue University
|
The Origin and Nature of the “Nineteen Old Poems” | 49 | PDF: free; hard copy: $14.00 |
| 78 | Feb. 1998 |
Narsu
Inner Mongolia College of Agriculture & Animal Husbandry
Kevin Stuart
Qinghai Junior Teachers’ College
|
Practical Mongolian Sentences (With English Translation) | iii + 49 + ii + 66 | PDF: free; hard copy: $23.00 |
| 79 | March 1998 |
Dennis Grafflin
Bates College
|
A Southeast Asian Voice in the Daodejing? | 8 | PDF: free; hard copy: $5.50 |
| 80 | July 1998 |
Taishan Yu
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
|
A Study of Saka History | ii + 225 | PDF: free; hard copy: $32.00 |
| 81 | Sept. 1998 |
Hera S. Walker
Ursinus College (Philadelphia)
|
Indigenous or Foreign?: A Look at the Origins of the Monkey Hero Sun Wukong | iv + 110 | PDF: free; hard copy: $24.50 |
| 82 | Sept. 1998 |
I. S. Gurevich
Russian Academy of Sciences
|
A Fragment of a pien-wen(?) Related to the Cycle “On Buddha’s Life” | 15 | PDF: free; hard copy: $8.50 |
| 83 | Oct. 1998 |
Minglang Zhou
University of Colorado at Boulder
|
Tense/Aspect markers in Mandarin and Xiang dialects, and their contact | 20 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 84 | Oct. 1998 |
Ulf Jäger
Gronau/Westfalen, Germany
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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 |
| 85 | Oct. 1998 |
Mariko Namba Walter
University of New England
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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 |
| 86 | Oct. 1998 |
Jidong Yang
University of Pennsylvania
|
Siba: Bronze Age Culture of the Gansu Corridor | 18 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.00 |
| 87 | Nov. 1998 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
|
Canine Conundrums: Eurasian Dog Ancestor Myths in Historical and Ethnic Perspective | 74 | PDF: free; hard copy: $16.50 |
| 88 | Dec. 1998 |
Saroj Kumar Chaudhuri
Aichi Gakusen University
|
Siddham in China and Japan | 9, 124 | PDF: free; hard copy: $27.00 |
| 89 | Jan. 1999 |
Alvin Lin
Yale University
|
Writing Taiwanese: The Development of Modern Written Taiwanese | 4 + 41 + 4 | PDF: free; hard copy: $14.50 |
| 90 | Jan. 1999 | Victor H. Mair et al | Reviews VII [including review of The Original Analects] | 2, 38 | PDF: free; hard copy: $12.00 |
| 91 | Jan. 1999 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
|
Phonosymbolism or Etymology: The Case of the Verb “Cop” | 28 | PDF: free; hard copy: $11.00 |
| 92 | Jan. 1999 |
Christine Louise Lin
Dartmouth College
|
The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the Advocacy of Local Autonomy | xiii + 136 | PDF: free; hard copy: $26.00 |
| 93 | Jan. 1999 |
David S. Nivison
Stanford University
|
The Key to the Chronology of the Three Dynasties: The “Modern Text” Bamboo Annals | iv + 68 | PDF: free; hard copy: $15.50 |
| 94 | March 1999 |
Julie Lee Wei
Hoover Institute
|
Correspondences Between the Chinese Calendar Signs and the Phoenician Alphabet | 65 + 6 | PDF: free; hard copy: $16.00 |
| 95 | May 1999 |
Victor H. Mair
University 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 |
| 96 | June 1999 |
E. Bruce Brooks
University of Massachusetts
|
Alexandrian Motifs in Chinese Texts | 14 | PDF: free; hard copy: $7.00 |
| 97 | Dec. 1999 |
LI Shuicheng
Peking 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 |
| 98 | Jan. 2000 | Peter Daniels, Daniel Boucher, and other authors | Reviews VIII | 108 | PDF: free; hard copy: $18.00 |
| 99 | Feb. 2000 |
Anthony Barbieri-Low
Princeton University
|
Wheeled Vehicles in the Chinese Bronze Age (c. 2000–741 BC) | v, 98 + 5 color plates | PDF: free; hard copy: $33.50 |
| 100 | Feb. 2000 |
Wayne Alt
Community College of Baltimore County (Essex)
|
Zhuangzi, Mysticism, and the Rejection of Distinctions | 29 | PDF: free; hard copy: $11.50 |
| 101 | March 2000 |
C. Michele Thompson
South Connecticut State University
|
The Viêt Peoples and the Origins of Nom | 71, 1 | PDF: free; hard copy: $18.50 |
| 102 | March 2000 |
Theresa Jen
Bryn Mawr College
Ping Xu
Baruch College
|
Penless Chinese Character Reproduction | 15 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.00 |
| 103 | June 2000 |
Carrie E. Reid
Middlebury College
|
Early Chinese Tattoo | 52 | PDF: free; hard copy: $15.00 |
| 104 | July 2000 |
David W. Pankenier
Lehigh University
|
Popular Astrology and Border Affairs in Early China | 19 + 1 color plate | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 105 | Aug. 2000 |
Anne Birrell
Cambridge University
|
Postmodernist Theory in Recent Studies of Chinese Literature | 31 | PDF: free; hard copy: $12.50 |
| 106 | Sept. 2000 |
Yu Taishan
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
|
A Hypothesis about the Sources of the Sai Tribes | i, 3, 200 | PDF: free; hard copy: $30.00 |
| 107 | Sept. 2000 | Jacques deLisle, Adelheid E. Krohne, and the editor | Reviews IX | 148 + map | PDF: free; hard copy: $25.00 |
| 108 | Sept. 2000 |
Ruth H. Chang
University of Pennsylvania
|
Understanding Di and Tian: Deity and Heaven From Shang to Tang | vii, 54 | PDF: free; hard copy: $14.50 |
| 109 | Oct. 2000 |
Conán Dean Carey
Stanford University
|
In Hell the One without Sin is Lord | ii, 60 | PDF: free; hard copy: $14.50 |
| 110 | Oct. 2000 |
Toh Hoong Teik
Harvard University
|
Shaykh ’Alam: The Emperor of Early Sixteenth-Century China | 20 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 111 | Nov. 2000 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
|
The Need for a New Era | 10 | PDF: free; hard copy: $5.00 |
| 112 | July 2001 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
|
Notes on the Anau Inscription | xi, 93 | PDF: free; hard copy: $18.00 |
| 113 | Aug. 2001 |
Ray Collins
Chepachet, RI
David Kerr
Melbourne, FL
|
Etymology of the Word “Macrobiotic:s” and Its Use in Modern Chinese Scholarship | 18 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 114 | March 2002 |
Ramnath Subbaraman
University 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 |
| 115 | April 2002 |
ZHOU Jixu
Sichuan Normal University
|
Correspondences of Basic Words Between Old Chinese and Proto-Indo-European | 8 | PDF: free; hard copy: $5.00 |
| 116 | May 2002 |
LIU Yongquan
Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
|
On the Problem of Chinese Lettered Words | 13 | PDF: free; hard copy: $6.00 |
| 117 | May 2002 |
SHANG Wei
Columbia University
|
Baihua, Guanhua, Fangyan and the May Fourth Reading of Rulin Waishi | 10 | PDF: free; hard copy: $5.50 |
| 118 | June 2002 |
Justine T. Snow
Port 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 |
| 119 | July 2002 |
WU Zhen
Xinjiang 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 |
| 120 | July 2002 |
Anne Birrell
University of Cambridge, Clare Hall
|
Female-Gendered Myth in the Classic of Mountains and Seas | 47 | PDF: free; hard copy: $16.50 |
| 121 | July 2002 |
Mark Edward Lewis
Stanford University
|
Dicing and Divination in Early China | 22, 7 figs. | PDF: free; hard copy: $10.50 |
| 122 | July 2002 |
Julie Wilensky
Yale 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 |
| 123 | Aug. 2002 | Paul R. Goldin and the editor | Reviews X | 30 | PDF: free; hard copy: $11.00 |
| 124 | Aug. 2002 |
Fredrik T. Hiebert
University of Pennsylvania
John Colarusso
McMaster University
|
The Context of the Anau Seal Remarks on the Anau and Niyä Seals |
1-34 35-47 |
PDF: free; hard copy: $16.50 |
| 125 | July 2003 |
ZHOU Jixu
Sichuan Normal University
Shanghai Normal University |
Correspondences of Cultural Words between Old Chinese and Proto-Indo-European | 19 | PDF: free; hard copy: $10.00 |
| 126 | Aug. 2003 |
Tim Miller
University of Washington
|
A Southern Min Word in the Tsu-t’ang chi | 14 | PDF: free; hard copy: $8.00 |
| 127 | Oct. 2003 |
Sundeep S. Jhutti
Petaluma, California
|
The Getes | 125, 8 color plates | PDF: free; hard copy: $37.50 |
| 128 | Nov. 2003 |
Yinpo Tschang
New York City
|
On Proto-Shang | 18 | PDF: free; hard copy: $10.00 |
| 129 | Dec. 2003 |
Michael Witzel
Harvard University
|
Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric Western Central Asia | 70 | PDF: free; hard copy: $16.90 |
| 130 | Feb. 2004 |
Bede Fahey
Fort St. John, British Columbia
|
Mayan: A Sino-Tibetan Language? A Comparative Study | 61 | PDF: free; hard copy: $15.00 |
| 131 | March 2004 |
Taishan Yu
Chinese 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 | 1, 3, 352 | $55.00 |
| 132 | April 2004 |
Kim Hayes
Sydney
|
On the Presence of Non-Chinese at Anyang | 11 | PDF: free; hard copy: $6.50 |
| 133 | April 2004 |
John L. Sorenson
Brigham Young University
Carl L. Johannessen
University of Oregon
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Scientific Evidence for Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages CD-ROM | 48, 166, 19, 15 plates | PDF: free; hard copy: $15.50 |
| 134 | May 2004 |
Xieyan Hincha
Neumädewitz, Germany
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Two Steps Toward Digraphia in China | i, 22 | PDF: free; hard copy: $10.00 |
| 135 | May 2004 |
John J. Emerson
Portland, Oregon
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The Secret History of the Mongols and Western Literature | 21 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 136 | May 2004 |
Serge Papillon
Mouvaux, France and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Influences tokhariennes sur la mythologie chinoise | 47 | PDF: free; hard copy: $14.50 |
| 137 | June 2004 |
Hoong Teik Toh
Harvard University
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Some Classical Malay Materials for the Study of the Chinese Novel Journey to the West | 64 | PDF: free; hard copy: $15.00 |
| 138 | June 2004 |
Julie Lee Wei
San Jose and London
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Dogs and Cats: Lessons from Learning Chinese | 17 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 139 | June 2004 |
Taishan Yu
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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A Hypothesis on the Origin of the Yu State | 20 | PDF: free; hard copy: $10.50 |
| 140 | June 2004 |
Yinpo Tschang
New York City
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Shih and Zong: Social Organization in Bronze Age China | 28 | PDF: free; hard copy: $11.50 |
| 141 | July 2004 |
Yinpo Tschang
New York City
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Chaos in Heaven: On the Calendars of Preclassical China | 30 | PDF: free; hard copy: $12.00 |
| 142 | July 2004 |
Katheryn Linduff, ed.
University of Pittsburgh
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Silk Road Exchange in China | 64 | $16.00 |
| 143 | July 2004 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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Sleep in Dream: Soporific Responses to Depression in Story of the Stone | 99 | PDF: free; hard copy: $20.00 |
| 144 | July 2004 |
RONG Xinjiang
Peking University
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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 |
| 145 | Aug. 2004 |
the editor
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Reviews XI | 2, 41 | PDF: free; hard copy: $13.50 |
| 146 | Feb. 2005 |
Hoong Teik Toh
Academia Sinica
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The -yu Ending in Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Gaoju Onomastica | 24 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 147 | March 2005 |
Hoong Teik Toh
Academia Sinica
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Chinese Qiong ~ Tibetan Khyung; Taoism ~ Bonpo — Some Questions Related to Early Ethno-Religious History in Sichuan | 18 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 148 | April 2005 |
Lucas Christopoulos
Beijing Sports University
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Le gréco-bouddhisme et l’art du poing en Chine | 52 | PDF: free; hard copy: $16.00 |
| 149 | May 2005 |
Kimberly S. Te Winkle
University College, London
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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 |
| 150 | May 2005 |
Dolkun Kamberi
Washington, DC
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Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity | 44 | PDF: free; hard copy: $14.00 |
| 151 | June 2005 |
Jane Jia SI
University of Pennsylvania
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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 |
| 152 | June 2005 |
Denis Mair
Seattle
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The Dance of Qian and Kun in the Zhouyi | 13, 2 figs. | PDF: free; hard copy: $6.00 |
| 153 | July 2005 |
Alan Piper
London (UK)
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The Mysterious Origins of the Word “Marihuana” | 17 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 154 | July 2005 |
Serge Papillon
Belfort, France
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Mythologie sino-européenne | 174, 1 plate | PDF: free; hard copy: $24.50 |
| 155 | July 2005 |
Denis Mair
Seattle
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Janus-Like Concepts in the Li and Kun Trigrams | 8 | PDF: free; hard copy: $5.00 |
| 156 | July 2005 |
Abolqasem Esmailpour
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran
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Manichean Gnosis and Creation | 157 | PDF: free; hard copy: $32.50 |
| 157 | Aug. 2005 |
Ralph D. Sawyer
Independent Scholar
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Paradoxical Coexistence of Prognostication and Warfare | 13 | PDF: free; hard copy: $8.00 |
| 158 | Aug. 2005 |
Mark Edward Lewis
Stanford University
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Writings on Warfare Found in Ancient Chinese Tombs | 15 | PDF: free; hard copy: $8.50 |
| 159 | Aug. 2005 |
Jens Østergaard Petersen
University of Copenhagen
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The Zuozhuan Account of the Death of King Zhao of Chu and Its Sources | 47 | PDF: free; hard copy: $14.50 |
| 160 | Sept. 2005 |
Matteo Compareti
Venice
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Literary Evidence for the Identification of Some Common Scenes in Han Funerary Art | 14 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.50 |
| 161 | Sept. 2005 |
Julie Lee Wei
London
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The Names of the Yi Jing Trigrams: An Inquiry into Their Linguistic Origins | 18 | PDF: free; hard copy: $9.00 |
| 162 | Sept. 2005 |
Julie Lee Wei
London
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Counting and Knotting: Correspondences between Old Chinese and Indo-European | 71, map | $16.50 |
| 163 | Oct. 2005 |
Julie Lee Wei
London
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Huangdi and Huntun (the Yellow Emperor and Wonton): A New Hypothesis on Some Figures in Chinese Mythology | 44 | $14.00 |
| 164 | Oct. 2005 |
Julie Lee Wei
London
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Shang and Zhou: An Inquiry into the Linguistic Origins of Two Dynastic Names | 62 | PDF: free; hard copy: $15.00 |
| 165 | Oct. 2005 |
Julie Lee Wei
London
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DAO and DE: An Inquiry into the Linguistic Origins of Some Terms in Chinese Philosophy and Morality | 51 | PDF: free; hard copy: $14.00 |
| 166 | Nov. 2005 |
Julie Lee Wei
London
Hodong Kim
Seoul National University
and David Selvia and the Editor
both of the University of Pennsylvania
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Reviews XII | i, 63 | PDF: free; hard copy: $15.00 |
| 167 | Dec. 2005 |
ZHOU Jixu
Sichuan Normal University
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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 |
| 168 | Dec. 2005 |
Judith A. Lerner
New York City
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Aspects of Assimilation: the Funerary Practices and Furnishings of Central Asians in China | 51, v, 9 plates | PDF: free; hard copy: $35.00 |
| 169 | Jan. 2006 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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Conversion Tables for the Three-Volume Edition of the Hanyu Da Cidian | i, 284 | PDF: free; hard copy: $25.00 |
| 170 | Feb. 2006 |
Amber R. Woodward
University of Pennsylvania
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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 |
| Beginning with issue no. 171, Sino-Platonic Papers has been published electronically on the Web. | |||||
| # | Date | Author | Title | Pp | Price |
| 171 | June 2006 |
John DeFrancis
University of Hawaii
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The Prospects for Chinese Writing Reform | 24, 3 figs. | free |
| 172 | Aug. 2006 | Deborah Beaser | The Outlook for Taiwanese Language Preservation (585 KB PDF) | 18 | free |
| 173 | Oct. 2006 |
Taishan YU
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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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 |
| 174 | Nov. 2006 | Mariko Namba Walter | Sogdians and Buddhism (900 KB PDF) | 66 | free |
| 175 | Dec. 2006 |
Zhou Jixu
Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Chinese Department, Sichuan Normal University
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The Rise of Agricultural Civilization in China: The Disparity between Archeological Discovery and the Documentary Record and Its Explanation (930 KB PDF) | 38 | free |
| 176 | May 2007 |
Eric Henry
University of North Carolina
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The Submerged History of Yuè | 36 | free |
| 177 | Aug. 2007 |
Beverley Davis
Merit, Texas
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Timeline of the Development of the Horse | 186 | free |
| 178 | Feb. 2008 |
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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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 |
| 179 | Feb. 2008 |
Julie M. Groves
Hong Kong Baptist University
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Language or Dialect -- or Topolect? A Comparison of the Attitudes of Hong Kongers and Mainland Chinese towards the Status of Cantonese | 103 | free |
| 180 | April 2008 | Amber R. Woodward | A Survey of Li Yang Crazy English | 71 | free |
| 181 | Aug. 2008 |
Matteo Compareti
Venice, Italy
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Traces of Buddhist Art in Sogdiana | 42 | free |
| 182 | Sept. 2008 |
Aurelia Campbell, Jeffrey Rice, Daniel Sungbin Sou, and Lala Zuo
University of Pennsylvania
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The Cult of the Bodhisattva Guanyin in Early China and Korea | 117 | free |
| 183 | Oct. 2008 |
Chunwei Song
Peking University
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Heroes Brought Buddhism to the East of the Sea: A Fully Annotated Translation of The Preface of Haedong Kosŭng Chŏn | 38 | free |
| 184 | Oct. 2008 |
Xiang Li
Seattle, Washington
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Irony Illustrated: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Situational Irony in China and the United States | 59 | free |
| 185 | Nov. 2008 |
Jan Romgard
Stockholm University and the University of Nottingham
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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 |
| 186 | March 2009 |
Doug Hitch
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The Special Status of Turfan | 61 | free |
| 187 | April 2009 |
Xiuqin Zhou
University of Pennsylvania
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Zhaoling: The Mausoleum of Emperor Tang Taizong | 380 | free |
| 188 | May 2009 |
Geoff Wade
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
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The Polity of Yelang (夜郎) and the Origins of the Name ‘China’ | 26 | free |
| 189 | June 2009 |
Li Chen, Genevieve Y. Leung, Matthew A. Marcucci, and Kenneth Yeh; with a foreword by Victor H. Mair.
University of Pennsylvania
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Sinographic Languages: The Past, Present, and Future of Script Reform | 101 | free |
| 190 | June 2009 |
Pita Kelekna
New York City
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The Politico-Economic Impact of the Horse on Old World Cultures: An Overview | 31 | free |
| 191 | July 2009 |
Urs App
Swiss National Science Foundation
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William Jones’s Ancient Theology | 125 | free |
| 192 | Sept. 2009 |
John C. Didier
Colorado State University
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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 |
| 193 | Nov. 2009 |
edited and with a foreword by Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
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Women and Men, Love and Power: Parameters of Chinese Fiction and Drama | 180 | free |
| 194 | Nov. 2009 |
Heleanor B. Feltham
University of New South Wales
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Justinian and the International Silk Trade | 40 | free |
| 195 | Dec. 2009 |
John L. Sorenson
Brigham Young University
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A Complex of Ritual and Ideology Shared by Mesoamerica and the Ancient Near East | 134 | free |
| 196 | Dec. 2009 |
Brian R. Pellar
San Diego, California
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On the Origins of the Alphabet | 46 | free |
| 197 | Jan. 2010 |
YU Taishan
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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The Communication Lines between East and West as Seen in the Mu Tianzi Zhuan | 57 | free |
| 198 | Feb. 2010 |
Doug Hitch
Whitehorse, Yukon
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Aramaic Script Derivatives in Central Eurasia | 18 | free |
| 199 | March 2010 |
Tae Hyun KIM
Berkeley
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Other Laozi Parallels in the Hanfeizi: An Alternative Approach to the Textual History of the Laozi and Early Chinese Thought | 76 | free |
| 200 | April, 2010 |
Urs App
Swiss National Science Foundation
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Arthur Schopenhauer and China: A Sino-Platonic Love Affair | viii, 164 | free |
| 201 | May 2010 |
Hoong Teik TOH
Johor, Malaysia
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Notes on the Earliest Sanskrit Word Known in Chinese | 10 | free |
| 202 | May 2010 |
David McCraw
University of Hawaii
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An “ABC” Exercise in Old Sinitic Lexical Statistics | 42 | free |
| 203 | June 2010 |
Donald F. Beaumont
Senior University, Georgetown, Texas
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How the Earth’s Geology Determined Human History | 93 | free |
| 204 | June 2010 |
YU Taishan
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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The Earliest Tocharians in China | 78 | free |
| 205 | July 2010 |
Heleanor B. Feltham
University of New South Wales
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Nomad Culture, Greek Style: Steppes Jewellery and Adornment | 31 | free |
| 206 | Aug. 2010 |
Heleanor B. Feltham
University of New South Wales
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Lions, Silks and Silver: The Influence of Sasanian Persia | 51 | free |
| 207 | Oct. 2010 |
Randolph Ford
New York University
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Barbaricum Depictum: Images of the Germani and Xiongnu in the Works of Tacitus and Sima Qian | 31 | free |
| 208 | Feb. 2011 |
Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
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Reviews XIII | 120 | free |
| 209 | April 2011 |
Mark A. Riddle
Pleasant Grove, Utah
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Japan and Inner Asia: Some Connections | 23 | free |
| 210 | April 2011 |
Mark A. Riddle
Pleasant Grove, Utah
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Turkic “Balbal” in Japan | 14 | free |
| 211 | May 2011 |
ZHOU Jixu
Sichuan Normal University
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Confucius and Lao Zi: Their Differing Social Foundations and Cultures | 18 | free |
| 212 | July 2111 |
YU Taishan
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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The Origin of the Kushans | 22 | free |
| 213 | Aug. 2011 |
Xiang WAN
University of Pennsylvania
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Early Development of Bronze Metallurgy in Eastern Eurasia | 17 | free |
| 214 | Sept. 2011 |
Mark A. Riddle
Pleasant Grove, Utah
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Tennō (天皇): The Central Asian Origin of Japan’s Solar Kingship | 25 | free |
| 215 | Sept. 2011 |
Matthew Anderson
University of Pennsylvania
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An Investigation of Orthographic Variance in Shang Writing | 16 | free |
| 216 | Oct. 2011 |
ZHANG He
William Paterson University
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Is Shuma the Chinese Analog of Soma/Haoma? A Study of Early Contacts between Indo-Iranians and Chinese | 36 | free |
| 217 | Dec. 2011 |
Jin GUAN
University of Pennsylvania
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Guanxi: The Key to Achieving Success in China | 10 | free |
| 218 | Dec. 2011 |
Michael Turk
Paradise, California
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Magician’s Map | 26 | free |
| 219 | Jan. 2012 |
Brian R. Pellar
Boston, Massachusetts
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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 |
| 220 | Jan. 2012 |
Mark Bender
Ohio State University
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Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki and “Axlu yyr kut”: Native Tongues in Literatures of Cultural Transition | 25 | free |
| 221 | Jan. 2012 |
Conal Boyce
Century College
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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 |
| 222 | March 2012 |
John R. McRae and Jan Nattier, eds.
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Buddhism Across Boundaries: The Interplay of Indian, Chinese, and Central Asian Source Materials | 260 | free |
| 223 | April 2012 |
Bertrand Arnaud
Paris Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes
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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 |
| 224 | May 2012 |
Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
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Developments in Chinese Language and Script During the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries | 130 | free |
| 225 | June 2012 |
Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Bard College
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The Image of the Winged Celestial and Its Travels along the Silk Road | 45 | free |
| 226 | June 2012 |
ZHOU Youguang
Beijing
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To Inherit the Ancient Teachings of Confucius and Mencius and Establish Modern Confucianism | 21 | free |
| 227 | July 2012 |
Hans Loeschner
Vienna
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The Stūpa of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka the Great, with Comments on the Azes Era and Kushan Chronology | 24 | free |
| 228 | July 2012 |
Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
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The “Silk Roads” in Time and Space: Migrations, Motifs, and Materials | 308 | free |
| 229 | Aug. 2012 |
Joshua A. Fogel
York University, Toronto
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New Thoughts on an Old Controversy: Shina as a Toponym for China | 25 | free |
| 230 | Aug. 2012 |
Lucas Christopoulos
Kobe, Japan
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Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD) | 79 | free |
| 231 | Oct. 2012 |
Heleanor Feltham
University of New South Wales
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Encounter with a Tiger Traveling West | 29 | free |
| 232 | Nov. 2012 |
Huili Zheng
Saint Vincent College
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Gendering Other: The Representation of Foreigners in Yesou puyan | 39 | free |
| 233 | Feb. 2013 |
Johan Elverskog
Southern Methodist University
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China and the New Cosmopolitanism | 30 | free |
| 234 | March 2013 | James M. Hargett
The University at Albany, State University of New York
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會稽: Guaiji? Guiji? Huiji? Kuaiji? Some Remarks on an Ancient Chinese Place-Name | 32 | free |
| 235 | March 2013 | Scott A. Barnwell
London, Ontario, Canada
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The Evolution of the Concept of De 德 in Early China | 83 | free |
| 236 | April 2013 | Wan Kong Ann
Tsinghua University
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Examining the Connection Between Ancient China and Borneo Through Santubong Archaeological Sites | 18 | free |
| 237 | April 2013 | Victor H. Mair and Cheng Fangyi
University of Pennsylvania and Tsinghua University
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Kungang (昆岗): The Making of an Imaginary Archaeological Culture | 32 | free |