Sino-Platonic Papers

Sino-Platonic Papers began as a print publication in 1986 and continued as such until issue no. 171 in June 2006. Since then, Sino-Platonic Papers has been published electronically on the Web, and all its back catalog has been rereleased in PDF format.

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# Title Pp Price
1 The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: A Review Article of Some Recent Dictionaries and Current Lexicographical Projects 31 $2.50
2 The Poetics of Uncertainty in Early Chinese Literature 45 $3.00
3 A Partial Bibliography for the Study of Indian Influence on Chinese Popular Literature iv, 214 $20.00
4 The Four Languages of “Mandarin” 14 $2.00
5 Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet 4 $2.00
6 Computers and Japanese Literacy: Nihonzin no Yomikaki Nôryoku to Konpyûta. This is a parallel text in Japanese (in romanization) and English. 13 $3.00
7 Indo-European Vocabulary in Old Chinese i, 56 $10.00
8 Reviews (I) ii, 39 $7.50
9 Life and Light, the Infinite: A Historical and Philological Analysis of the Amida Cult 46 $7.50
10 Buddhist Influence on the Neo-Confucian Concept of the Sage 31 $6.00
11 Western Cultural Innovations in China, 1200 BC 8 $2.00
12 The Contributions of T’ang and Five Dynasties Transformation Texts (pien-wen) to Later Chinese Popular Literature 71 $12.00
13 The Complete Ci-Poems of Li Qingzhao: A New English Translation xii, 122 $18.00
14 Reviews (II) 69 $7.50
15 On Attitudes Toward Language in Ancient India 19 $3.50
16 Three Brief Essays Concerning Chinese Tocharistan 16 $5.50
17 Tattooed Faces and Stilt Houses: Who Were the Ancient Yue? 28 $4.50
18 Two Non-Tetragraphic Northern Sinitic Languages Implications of the Soviet Dungan Script for Chinese Language Reform Who Were the Gyámi? 28 $7.00
19 Backhill/Peking/Beijing 6 $2.50
20 [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 $13.50
21 Two Cross-Cultural Studies on Reading Theory 9, 13 $8.50
22 Slips of the Tongue and Pen in Chinese 45 $8.50
23 Tracks of the Tao, Semantics of Zen 10 $3.50
24 Language, Writing, and Tradition in Iran 24 $6.50
25 Linguistic Nationalism: The Case of Southern Min 22 + 3 figs. $6.00
26 Questions on the Origins of Writing Raised by the Silk Road 10 $4.50
27 Schriftfestschrift: Essays in Honor of John DeFrancis on His Eightieth Birthday ix, 245 $35.00
28 The Family of Chinese Character-Type Scripts: Twenty Members and Four Stages of Development 11 $4.00
29 What Is a Chinese “Dialect/Topolect”? Reflections on Some Key Sino-English Linguistic Terms 31 $8.00
30 Chinese Philology and the Scripts of Central Asia 10 $4.50
31 Reviews (III) 68 $14.00
32 How the Chinawoman Lost Her Voice 27 $6.50
33 Interethnic Contact on the Inner Asian Frontier: The Gangou People of Minhe County, Qinghai 34 $10.00
34 Two Papers on Sinolinguistics A Hypothesis Concerning the Origin of the Term fanqie (“Countertomy”) East Asian Round-Trip Words 13 $5.00
35 Reviews (IV) 37 $12.00
36 Hanyu Wailaici de Yuyuan Kaozheng he Cidian Bianzuan (Philological Research on the Etymology of Loanwords in Sinitic and Dictionary Compilation) 13 $5.00
37 Chinese Buddhist Historiography and Orality 16 $6.00
38 The Linguistic and Textual Antecedents of The Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish 95 $18.00
39 A Material Case for a Late Bering Strait Crossing Coincident with Pre-Columbian Trans-Pacific Crossings 17 $6.50
40 Tiao-Fish through Chinese Dictionaries 68 $15.50
41 Miching Mallecho: The Zhanguo ce and Classical Rhetoric 27 $7.50
42 Kham Tibetan Language Materials 39 $9.50
43 Salar Language Materials 72 $16.50
44 The Three Thousand Year Old Charchan Man Preserved at Zaghunluq 15 $7.50
45 The Sino-Alphabet: The Assimilation of Roman Letters into the Chinese Writing System 28 $8.00
46 Reviews (V) 2, 155 $24.00
47 Sino-Tibetan *kolo “Wheel” 11 $5.00
48 Introduction and Notes for a Complete Translation of the Chuang Tzu xxxiv, 110 $21.50
49 Orality and Textuality in the Indian Context 28 $7.00
50 Diyi ge Lading Zimu de Hanyu Pinyin Fang’an Shi Zenyang Chansheng de? [How Was the First Romanized Spelling System for Sinitic Produced?] 7 $4.00
51 The Study of Ancient Human Skeletons from Xinjiang, China 9 + 4 figs. $6.00
52 Chinese Romanization Systems: IPA Transliteration 20 $7.00
53 Guanyu Tuhuoluoren de Qiyuan he Qianxi Wenti [On the Problem of the Origins and Migrations of the Tocharians] 11 $5.00
54 Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Jegün Yogur 34 $9.00
55 Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Dongxiang 34 $9.00
56 Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Dagur 36 $9.50
57 Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Monguor 31 $9.00
58 Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Baoan 28 $8.50
59 China’s Monguor Minority: Ethnography and Folktales i, I, 193 $28.50
60 China’s Dagur Minority: Society, Shamanism, and Folklore vii, 167 $26.50
61 Tales from China’s Forest Hunters: Oroqen Folktales iv, 59 $14.00
62 Reflections on the “Unity” of Spoken and Written Chinese and Academic Learning in China 5 $5.00
63 The Development of Complexity in Prehistoric North China 17 $7.00
64 A Germanic-Tai Linguistic Puzzle 81, 6 $17.00
65 Indo-European Loanwords in Altaic 28 $11.00
66 Some Linguistic Evidence for Early Cultural Exchange Between China and India 7 $5.00
67 Pursuing Zhuangzi as a Rhymester: A Snark-Hunt in Eight Fits 38 $10.50
68 New Research on the Origin of Cowries Used in Ancient China i, 26 $10.00
69 Language Materials of China’s Monguor Minority: Huzhu Mongghul and Minhe Mangghuer xi, 266 $40.00
70 Reviews VI 93 $20.00
71 Vernacularisms in Medieval Chinese Texts 31 + 11 + 8 $15.00
72 The Life and Mentorship of Confucius 44 $13.50
73 Blue Cloth and Pearl Deer; Yogur Folklore iii, 76 $18.00
74 Covert Sexism in Mandarin Chinese 23 $9.50
75 The Prestige of Writing: Wen2, Letter, Picture, Image, Ideography 40 $13.00
76 The Evolution of the Symbolism of the Paradise of the Buddha of Infinite Life and Its Western Origins 28 $11.00
77 The Origin and Nature of the “Nineteen Old Poems” 49 $14.00
78 Practical Mongolian Sentences (With English Translation) iii + 49 + ii + 66 $23.00
79 A Southeast Asian Voice in the Daodejing? 8 $5.50
80 A Study of Saka History ii + 225 $32.00
81 Indigenous or Foreign?: A Look at the Origins of the Monkey Hero Sun Wukong iv + 110 $24.50
82 A Fragment of a pien-wen(?) Related to the Cycle “On Buddha’s Life” 15 $8.50
83 Tense/Aspect markers in Mandarin and Xiang dialects, and their contact 20 $9.50
84 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 $8.50
85 Tokharian Buddhism in Kucha: Buddhism of Indo-European Centum Speakers in Chinese Turkestan before the 10th Century C.E. 30 $11.50
86 Siba: Bronze Age Culture of the Gansu Corridor 18 $9.00
87 Canine Conundrums: Eurasian Dog Ancestor Myths in Historical and Ethnic Perspective 74 $16.50
88 Siddham in China and Japan 9, 124 $27.00
89 Writing Taiwanese: The Development of Modern Written Taiwanese 4 + 41 + 4 $14.50
90 Reviews VII [including review of The Original Analects] 2, 38 $12.00
91 Phonosymbolism or Etymology: The Case of the Verb “Cop” 28 $11.00
92 The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the Advocacy of Local Autonomy xiii + 136 $26.00
93 The Key to the Chronology of the Three Dynasties: The “Modern Text” Bamboo Annals iv + 68 $15.50
94 Correspondences Between the Chinese Calendar Signs and the Phoenician Alphabet 65 + 6 $16.00
95 A Medieval, Central Asian Buddhist Theme in a Late Ming Taoist Tale by Feng Meng-lung 27 $11.50
96 Alexandrian Motifs in Chinese Texts 14 $7.00
97 A Discussion of Sino-Western Cultural Contacts and Exchange in the Second Millennium B.C. Based on Recent Archaeological Discoveries iv, 29 $13.00
98 Reviews VIII 108 $18.00
99 Wheeled Vehicles in the Chinese Bronze Age (c. 2000–741 BC) v, 98 + 5 color plates $33.50
100 Zhuangzi, Mysticism, and the Rejection of Distinctions 29 $11.50
101 The Viêt Peoples and the Origins of Nom 71, 1 $18.50
102 Penless Chinese Character Reproduction 15 $9.00
103 Early Chinese Tattoo 52 $15.00
104 Popular Astrology and Border Affairs in Early China 19 + 1 color plate $9.50
105 Postmodernist Theory in Recent Studies of Chinese Literature 31 $12.50
106 A Hypothesis about the Sources of the Sai Tribes i, 3, 200 $30.00
107 Reviews IX 148 + map $25.00
108 Understanding Di and Tian: Deity and Heaven From Shang to Tang vii, 54 $14.50
109 In Hell the One without Sin is Lord ii, 60 $14.50
110 Shaykh ’Alam: The Emperor of Early Sixteenth-Century China 20 $9.50
111 The Need for a New Era 10 $5.00
112 Notes on the Anau Inscription xi, 93 $18.00
113 Etymology of the Word “Macrobiotic:s” and Its Use in Modern Chinese Scholarship 18 $9.50
114 Beyond the Question of the Monkey Imposter: Indian Influence on the Chinese Novel, The Journey to the West 35 $12.50
115 Correspondences of Basic Words Between Old Chinese and Proto-Indo-European 8 $5.00
116 On the Problem of Chinese Lettered Words 13 $6.00
117 Baihua, Guanhua, Fangyan and the May Fourth Reading of Rulin Waishi 10 $5.50
118 Evidence for the Indo-European Origin of Two Ancient Chinese Deities ii, 75, 1 color, 1 b-w print $18.00
119 “Hu” Non-Chinese as They Appear in the Materials from the Astana Graveyard at Turfan 21, 5 figs. $18.00
120 Female-Gendered Myth in the Classic of Mountains and Seas 47 $16.50
121 Dicing and Divination in Early China 22, 7 figs. $10.50
122 The Magical Kunlun and “Devil Slaves”: Chinese Perceptions of Dark-skinned People and Africa before 1500 51, 3 figs. $17.00
123 Reviews X 30 $11.00
124 The Context of the Anau Seal
Remarks on the Anau and Niyä Seals
1-34
35-47
$16.50
125 Correspondences of Cultural Words between Old Chinese and Proto-Indo-European 19 $10.00
126 A Southern Min Word in the Tsu-t’ang chi 14 $8.00
127 The Getes 125, 8 color plates $37.50
128 On Proto-Shang 18 $10.00
129 Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric Western Central Asia 70 $16.90
130 Mayan: A Sino-Tibetan Language? A Comparative Study 61 $15.00
131 A History of the Relationship between the Western and Eastern Han, Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Western Regions iii, 378 $55.00
132 On the Presence of Non-Chinese at Anyang 11 $6.50
133 Scientific Evidence for Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages 48, 166, 19, 15 plates CD-ROM: $15.50
134 Two Steps Toward Digraphia in China i, 22 $10.00
135 The Secret History of the Mongols and Western Literature 21 $9.50
136 Influences tokhariennes sur la mythologie chinoise 47 $14.50
137 Some Classical Malay Materials for the Study of the Chinese Novel Journey to the West 64 $15.00
138 Dogs and Cats: Lessons from Learning Chinese 17 $9.50
139 A Hypothesis on the Origin of the Yu State 20 $10.50
140 Shih and Zong: Social Organization in Bronze Age China 28 $11.50
141 Chaos in Heaven: On the Calendars of Preclassical China 30 $12.00
142 Silk Road Exchange in China 64 $16.00
143 Sleep in Dream: Soporific Responses to Depression in Story of the Stone 99 $20.00
144 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 $12.50
145 Reviews XI 2, 41 $13.50
146 The -yu Ending in Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Gaoju Onomastica 24 $9.50
147 Chinese Qiong ~ Tibetan Khyung; Taoism ~ Bonpo — Some Questions Related to Early Ethno-Religious History in Sichuan 18 $9.50
148 Le gréco-bouddhisme et l’art du poing en Chine 52 $16.00
149 A Sacred Trinity: God, Mountain, and Bird: Cultic Practices of the Bronze Age Chengdu Plain ii, 103 (41 in color) $55.00
150 Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity 44 $14.00
151 The Genealogy of Dictionaries: Producers, Literary Audience, and the Circulation of English Texts in the Treaty Port of Shanghai 44, 4 tables $15.50
152 The Dance of Qian and Kun in the Zhouyi 13, 2 figs. $6.00
153 The Mysterious Origins of the Word “Marihuana” 17 $9.50
154 Mythologie sino-européenne 174, 1 plate $24.50
155 Janus-Like Concepts in the Li and Kun Trigrams 8 $5.00
156 Manichean Gnosis and Creation 157 $32.50
157 Paradoxical Coexistence of Prognostication and Warfare 13 $8.00
158 Writings on Warfare Found in Ancient Chinese Tombs 15 $8.50
159 The Zuozhuan Account of the Death of King Zhao of Chu and Its Sources 47 $14.50
160 Literary Evidence for the Identification of Some Common Scenes in Han Funerary Art 14 $9.50
161 The Names of the Yi Jing Trigrams: An Inquiry into Their Linguistic Origins 18 $9.00
162 Counting and Knotting: Correspondences between Old Chinese and Indo-European 71, map $16.50
163 Huangdi and Huntun (the Yellow Emperor and Wonton): A New Hypothesis on Some Figures in Chinese Mythology 44 $14.00
164 Shang and Zhou: An Inquiry into the Linguistic Origins of Two Dynastic Names 62 $15.00
165 DAO and DE: An Inquiry into the Linguistic Origins of Some Terms in Chinese Philosophy and Morality 51 $14.00
166 Reviews XII i, 63 $15.00
167 Old Chinese ‘*tees’ and Proto-Indo-European ‘*deus’: Similarity in Religious Ideas and a Common Source in Linguistics 17 $9.50
168 Aspects of Assimilation: the Funerary Practices and Furnishings of Central Asians in China 51, v, 9 plates $35.00
169 Conversion Tables for the Three-Volume Edition of the Hanyu Da Cidian i, 284 $25.00
170 Learning English, Losing Face, and Taking Over: The Method (or Madness) of Li Yang and His Crazy English 18 $9.50
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