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 ‘帝*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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