Reviews (III)
Feature Reviews
- Jonathan N. Lipman and Stevan Harrell, eds. Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture. Reviewed by Robin D.S. Yates
All of the following reviews are by the editor.
- Mark Edward Lewis. Sanctioned Violence in Early China.
- QIAN Wen-yuan. The Great Inertia: Scientific Stagnation in Traditional China.
Oracle Shell and Bone Inscriptions (OSBIs)
- M. V. Kryukov. The Language of Yin Inscriptions.
- LI Pu. Jiagu Wenxuan Zhu. [Annotated Anthology of Oracle Shell and Bone Inscriptions].
- WANG Yuxin, YANG Shenguan, and NIE Yuhai, comp. Jiaguwen Jingcui Xuandu: [Selected Readings in Oracle Bone and Shell Inscriptions].
- LIU Xiang, et a1. Shang Zhou Guwenzi Duben [A Reader of Shang and Zhou Paleography].
- Riccardo Fracasso. A Technical Glossary of Jiaguology (Oracle Bone Studies).
- XU Zhongshu, ed. Jiagu Wenzi Dian [Dictionary of Oracle Shell and Bone Graphs].
- M. V. Kryukov and KHUAN Shu-in. Drevnekitaisii Yaz'ik.
- Sarah Allan. The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China.
Proto-Language And Culture
- Walter A. Koch, ed. Geneses of Language/Genesen der Sprache.
- Vitaly Shevoroshkin, ed. Proto-Languages and Proto-Cultures. Including notes on several other volumes in the same series
Language and Script
- Kevin Robb, ed. Language and Thought in Early Greek Philosophy.
- Wayne Senner, ed. The Origins of Writing.
- ZHOU Youguang. Shijie Zimu Jianshi [A Concise History of World Alphabets].
- Florian Coulmas. The Writing Systems of the World.
- Akira Nakanishi. Writing Systems of the World -- Alphabets, Syllabaries, Pictograms--.
- NIE Hongyin. Zhongguo de Wenzi [The Scripts of China].
- Binyong Yin and Mary Felley. Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation and Orthography.
- Zhongguo Minzu Guwen Yanjiuhui [Research Society for the Ancient Scripts of Chinese Nationalities], ed Zhongguo Minzu Guwemi Yanjiu [Studies on the Ancient Scripts of Chinese Nationalities].
- ZHENG Liangwei (Roben L Cheng). Zouxiang Biaozhunhua de Taiwanhuawen (Essays on Written Taiwanese).
- Taiyu Wenzhai [Digest of the Languages of Taiwan].
- QIU Xueqiang. Miaoyu Fangyan [Marvelous Topolecticisms].
- Edwin G. Pulleyblank. Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin.
Reference Tools for Sinitic Languages
- ZHANG Jihua. Changyong Kouyu Yuhui [A Glossary of Common Colloquialisms].
- XU Shirong. Beijing Tuyu Cidian [A Dictionary of Peking Colloquialisms].
- LIU Jiexiu, comp. Hanyu Chengyu Kaoshi Cidian [A Dictionary of Set Phrases in Sinitic with Sources and Explanations].
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- Zhongguo Chengyu Da Cidian [Unabridged Dictionary of Chinese Set Phrases].
- John S. Rohsenow, comp. A Chinese-English Dictionary of Enigmatic Folk Similes.
- Shijie Chengyu Diangu Cidian [A Dictionary of the Sources of Idioms of the Work Languages].
- MENG Zong, et. al., ed. Dongci rongfa Cidian [Usage Dictionary of Verbs].
Literature and the Life of Peking
- Tao-ching Hsii. The Chinese Conception of the Theatre.
- ZHANG Qingchang. Hutong ji Qita: Shehuiyuyanxue de Tansuo [Alleys and Others: Sociolinguistic Investigation].
Religion and Philosophy
- Akira Hirakawa. A History of Indian Buddhism: From Sakyamuni to Early Buddhism. Translated and edited by Paul Groner .
- Robert E. Buswell, Jr., ed. Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha.
- Koun Yamada, tr, and comm. Gateless Gate.
- Kuang-ming Wu. The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu.
- Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, tr. and ed. Chinesische Manichaica: Mit textkritischen Anmerkungen und einem Glossar.
Words
- Martin Manser. The Guinness Book of Words.
- Horace G. Danner and Roger Noel An Introduction to an Academic Vocabulary: Word Clusters from Latin, Greek, and German: A Vade Mecum for the Serious Student.
- Will C. Barnes. Arizona Place Names.
The New World
- Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary.
- Nigel Davies. Voyagers to the New World.
"Barbarian" Business
- Arthur Waldron. The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth.
- Daniel Kane. The Sino-Jurchen Vocabulary of the Bureau of Interpreters.
- Nicholas Sims-Williams and James Hamilton. Documents turco-sogdiens du Ixe-Xe siecle de Touen-houang.
- Reinhard F. Hahn, in collaboration with Ablahat Ibrahim. Spoken Uyghur.
South Asia
- Bh. Krishnamurti, ed. South Asian Languages: Structure, Convergence and Diglossia.
- Jyotindra Jain and Aarti Aggarwala. National Handicrafts and Handloom Museum.
- V.S. Pramar .Haveli: Wooden Houses and Mansions of Gujarat.
Miscellaneous
- Edward J. Rozek, ed. and pref. Walter H. Judd: Chronicles of a Statesman.
- Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.