Sino-Platonic Papers

# Date Author Title Pp Price
357 Sept. 2024 Douglas Q. Adams
University of Idaho
Resurrecting an Etymology: Greek (w)ánax ‘king’ and Tocharian A nātäk ‘lord,’ and Possible Wider Connections 20 free
356 Aug. 2024 Sanping Chen
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The Tang as a Tuoba Dynasty 27 free
355 Aug. 2024 James M. Hargett
The University at Albany, State University of New York
Xu Xiake (1587–1641) and His Unfortunate Son’s “Lasting Achievements” 29 free
354 Aug. 2024 J. Marshall Unger
The Ohio State University
Handling Chinese Characters on Computers: Three Recent Studies 18 free
353 Aug. 2024 Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
Speaking and Writing: Studies in Vernacular Aspects of Middle Period Chinese Culture 67 free
352 Aug. 2024 Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
Dramatic Transformations of Sinography in East Asia and the World 59 free
351 July 2024 Pin LYU
University of Nottingham
Placing Western Coins Near the Deceased in Ancient China: The Origin of a Custom 40 free
350 June 2024 Lucas Christopoulos
Tokyo
Alexander the Great and Herakles as Guardians of the Buddha of Tapa Shotor 65 free
349 June 2024 Benjamin Porteous
Harvard University
Reading Genesis 22 and Analects 18 in Late Antiquity 28 free
348 June 2024 Angela F. Howard
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
A Historical Perspective on the Central Asian Kingdom of Kucha 40 free
347 May 2024 Conal Boyce
White Bear Lake, Minnesota
Metric Montage in Chinese Poetry 20 free
346 May 2024 Olivia Anna Rovsing Milburn
University of Hong Kong
The Imagery of House Geckos and Tokay Geckos in Imperial Era Chinese Literature 50 free
345 May 2024 E.J.W. Barber
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Of Salt Men and Cloth: The Remarkable Textile History Preserved in Eurasian Salt-beds 26 free
344 May 2024 Joost H. Crouwel
University of Amsterdam
Gail Brownrigg
Dorking, UK
Katheryn Linduff
University of Pittsburgh
From Chariot to Carriage: Wheeled Vehicles and Developments in Draft and Harnessing in Ancient China 59 free
343 April 2024 Sharon Rose Anderson
Urbana, Illinois
The Artist as Alchemist: Reimagining Xu Wei’s Nanjing Museum Handscroll 65 free
342 March 2024 Hugh R. Clark
Ursinus College
Central Plain Policies toward the South through the First Millennium CE: A New Perspective on Sinitic Colonialism 45 free
341 March 2024 Brian R. Pellar
San Diego, California
On the Origins of the Alphabet: Orion/Osiris in Need of a Head/Seed, the Roots of Writing, the Neolithic Europe Word as Sun/Seed System (NEWS), and a Solution to the Tartaria and Gradeshnista Tablets 124 free
340 Feb. 2024 Wilt L. Idema
Harvard University
Answering the Emperor in Verse: Zhang Liang and Xie Jin as Poets at Court in the Popular Tradition of the Ming and Qing Dynasties 77 free
339 Feb. 2024 Liú Chūnxiǎo
University of Zurich
The Rise of Yín 吟 and the Reconstruction of Táng Poetic Aurality 151 free
338 Jan. 2024 Gábor Parti
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Mapping the Language of Spices: A Corpus-Based, Philological Study on the Words of the Spice Domain 243 free
337 Dec. 2023 Hakan Aydemir
Istanbul Medeniyet University (Türkiye)
Tocharian Bilingualism, Language Shift, and Language Death in the Old Turkic Context 89 free
336 Sept. 2023 Andrew C. H. Jones
 
with contributions by Frank W. Clements & Victor H. Mair
Stockton University, University of Pennsylvania
The Way to Wa (in the Age of Himiko) 56 free
335 July 2023 Toby A. Cox
Harvard Divinity School
Climate and Loss: Notions of Eco-Apocalypse in Zoroastrian Literature 24 free
334 June 2023 Wayne C. F. Yeung
University of Denver
The Concept of the Cantophone: Memorandum for a Stateless Literary History 49 free
333 May 2023 Wilt L. Idema, ed. and trans.
Harvard University
The Scholar and the Monk: Two Precious Scrolls on the Conversion of Bai Juyi by Chan Master Bird’s Nest, and the Practice of Self-Cultivation by Bai’s Spouses 65 free
332 April 2023 Keith Rawlings
Montreal, Canada
The Sutradhar and the Ringgit: A Study of Terms Related to the Early Puppet Theatres 40 free
331 March 2023 Bettina Zeisler
Universität Tübingen
Combinatory Sound Alternations in Proto-, Pre-, and Real Tibetan: The Case of the Word Family *Mra(o) ‘Speak,’ ‘Speaker,’ ‘Human,’ ‘Lord’ 165 free
330 Feb. 2023 Wayne Alt
The Community College of Baltimore County, Maryland
A Non-Moral Interpretation of The Original Analects of Confucius 26 free
329 Jan. 2023 Rostislav Berezkin
Fudan University, Shanghai
An Early, Fourteenth-Century Version of the Precious Scroll of Mulian: A Translation with Introduction 64 free
328 Nov. 2022 Brian R. Pellar
Tucson, Arizona
On the Origins of the Alphabet: The Cycle of Emmer Wheat and Seed/Word Selection within the Proto-Sinaitic/Phoenician/Hebrew Alphazodiac and the Chinese Lunar Zodiac xii, 236 free
327 Oct. 2022 Sun Wujun
Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China
Images of the Riderless Horse as a Symbol of the Deceased in Sino-Sogdian Tombs 55 free
326 Sept. 2022 Lucas Christopoulos
Okinawa
Dionysian Rituals and the Golden Zeus of China 123 free
325 April 2022 Orçun Ünal
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
On *p- and Other Proto-Turkic Consonants vii, 95 free
324 March 2022 Julie Lee Wei
South Lyon, Michigan
New Evidence for the Indo-European Origins of the Yi Jing Trigram Names xiii, 40 free
323 Feb. 2022 Nicholas J. Tursi
University of Pennsylvania
Alcoholic Beverages in China: Terminology, History, and Cultural Significance 28 free
322 Jan. 2022 Zihan Guo
University of Pennsylvania
Self-Reflexive Vulgarity in Wang Fanzhi’s Poetry 25 free
321 Jan. 2022 Astrid Vicas
Saint Leo University
The Late Shang, DNA, and Trifunctionality 34 free
320 Dec. 2021 Sara de Rose
Hornby Island, Canada
A Proposed Mesopotamian Origin for the Ancient Musical and Musico-Cosmological Systems of the West and China v, 178 free
319 Dec. 2021 ZHANG He
William Paterson University
Planet Venus in the Astrology of Ancient Mesopotamia and China: Evidence of Direct Transmission of Knowledge and Practice as Demonstrated in Enuma Anu Enlil and Wu Xing Zhan ix, 130 free
318 Oct. 2021 Fan Pen Li Chen
State University of New York at Albany
Hallucinogen Use in China 39 free
317 Aug. 2021 Ruth Wetters
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
“Kong Girl Phonetics”: Loose Cantonese Romanization in the 2019 Hong Kong Protest Movement 15 free
316 June 2021 Lucas Klein
Arizona State University
The Babel Fallacy Fallacy: Against the Lack of Interest in and/or Hegemonic Blindness to Translation in Premodern China 27 free
315 May 2021 Ken-ichi Takashima
University of British Columbia
A Review of The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by Adam Craig Schwartz 15 free
314 May 2021 Tadas Snuviškis
Vilnius University
Indian Philosophy Beyond India: A Reconsideration of Vaiśeṣika 勝論 and Its Sources in East Asia 71 free
313 April 2021 Wilt L. Idema, ed. and trans.
Harvard University
The Precious Scroll of the Rat Epidemic, by Li Shanbao 127 free
312 April 2021 James M. Hargett
The University at Albany: State University of New York
Anchors of Stability: Place-Names in Early China 41 free
311 April 2021 Shaun C. R. Ramsden
Perth, Australia
Indo-Europeans in the Ancient Yellow River Valley 79 free
310 March 2021 Rostislav Berezkin
Fudan University
The Social Setting of Chinese Religious Storytelling in the Late Sixteenth – Early Seventeenth Centuries: A Passage from the Novel Pacification of the Demons’ Revolt (1620) 47 free
309 March 2021 Oliver D. Smith
Open University, UK
The Wildman of China: The Search for the Yeren 17 free
308 March 2021 Britton O’Daly
Yale University
An Israel of the Seven Rivers: Sogdians and Turks Reimagining a Christian Past and Future in Early Medieval Zhetysu 50 free
307 Feb. 2021 Jin Xu
Vassar College
Symbol of Universal Kingship: A Study of the Imagery on the Brocade with Lion Hunting in the Horyuji Temple 32 free
306 Dec. 2020 Barakatullo Ashurov
Boston College
Religions and Religious Space in Sogdian Culture: A View from Archaeological and Written Sources 41 free
305 Nov. 2020 ZHANG He
William Paterson University
The Chinese 60-Day/Year and Mesoamerican 260-Day Calendars: A Comparative Study of Cyclical Calendrical Systems and Cosmology 35 free
304 July 2020 Xiuyuan Mi
University of Pennsylvania
Naturalness versus Novelty: The Ideal of Poetry in the Late Jin Dynasty 22 free
303 July 2020 Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
Essays on Language, Script, and Society in China 91 free
302 June 2020 Bin Yang
University of Macau
Lotus Seals and Lotus Sealings: A Cross-Civilizational Perspective 52 free
301 May 2020 Kang, In Uk
Kyung Hee University, Seoul; visiting scholar, University of Pennsylvania
Archaeological Perspectives on the Early Relations of the Korean Peninsula with the Eurasian Steppe 31 free
300 April 2020 Shuheng Zhang and Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
Between the Eyes and the Ears: Ethnic Perspective on the Development of Philological Traditions, First Millennium AD 49 free
299 March 2020 Jeffrey L. Richey
Berea College
The Comma at the End of the Silk Road: Magatama and the Development of an Early Eastern Eurasian Ornamental Motif 33 free
298 Feb. 2020 Edward Weech
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society 24 free
297 Feb. 2020 Lucas Christopoulos
Osaka
Jin Dynasty Greco-Buddhist Atlas at the Zhongshan Grottoes 16 free
296 Feb. 2020 Brian R. Pellar
Boston, Massachusetts
On the Origins of the Alphabet: The Rapallo Alphazodiac and the Birth of the Sun as the Seed/Word 231 free
295 Dec. 2019 Wilt L. Idema, ed. and trans.
Harvard University
The Court Case of the Mouse against the Cat: A Casebook of Versions Recorded in Recent Decades 271 free
294 Nov. 2019 Shuheng Zhang
University of Pennsylvania
Three Ancient Words for Bear 21 free
293 Oct. 2019 N. Harry Rothschild
University of North Florida
The “Tumor-Rash Axiom” and Beyond: Discursive Excrescences in Early and Medieval China 28 free
292 Oct. 2019 Ryu Takai
Otani University, Kyoto, Japan
A Study of Li Yuan’s “Zhuanbian Ren” 18 free
291 Aug. 2019 Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
Sociocultural Studies of Chinese Prose and Poetry from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century v, 55 free
290 Aug. 2019 Ulf Jäger
Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
A Unique Alxon-Hunnic Horse-and-Rider Statuette (Late Fifth Century CE) from Ancient Bactria / Modern Afghanistan in the Pritzker Family Collection, Chicago 72 free
289 June 2019 Ying Zhou
University of Pennsylvania
Where Have All the Souls Gone? A Comparative Study on the Theme of Death in the Phaedo and Zhuangzi 36 free
288 June 2019 Qing Liao
University of Pennsylvania
Yang Lian’s Exilic Poetry: World Poetry, Ghost Poetics, and Self-dramatization 23 free
287 June 2019 J. Marshall Unger
The Ohio State University (Emeritus)
Emotion, Reason, and Language: Meanings Are Made, Not Retrieved 15 free
286 June 2019 Shuheng Zhang
University of Pennsylvania
The Reins of Language: The Mantra of the Heart Sutra in The Journey to the West 61 free
285 April 2019 Megan Foo
University of Pennsylvania
“Can the One Word ‘Sorrow” Suffice?”: An Analysis of Grief and Yearning in Li Qingzhao’s “Sorrow of Separation” and “Autumn Sorrow” 7 free
284 Jan. 2019 Hyejin Krista Ryu
University of Pennsylvania
Review of Language Change in East Asia, edited by T. E. McAuley 8 free
283 Dec. 2018 Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
Language, Script, and Art in East Asia and Beyond: Past and Present 243 free
282 Sept. 2018 Jeffrey Kotyk
McMaster University
The Sinicization of Indo-Iranian Astrology in Medieval China 95 free
281 Sept. 2018 David Holm
National Chengchi University
“Crossing the Seas”: Indic Ritual Templates and the Shamanic Substratum in Eastern Asia 75 free
280 Aug. 2018 Joe Cribb
British Museum
Kujula Kadphises and His Title Kushan Yavuga 20 free
279 Aug. 2018 Alexandra Harrer
Tsinghua University, Beijing
The Paradox of the Angled Bracket-arm and the Unorthodox “Speech Patterns” of Shanxi Regional Architecture 42 free
278 June 2018 Peter Kupfer
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Amber Shine and Black Dragon Pearls: The History of Chinese Wine Culture 47 free
277 April 2018 Thomas T. Allsen
Eugene, Oregon
Notes on Alcohol in Pre-Russian Siberia 29 free
276 March 2018 John Timothy Wixted
Harbert, Michigan
“Literary Sinitic” and “Latin” as Transregional Languages: With Implications for Terminology Regarding “Kanbun 14 free
275 Feb. 2018 Conal Boyce
White Bear Lake, Minnesota
On the Varieties of Factoid: New Ones Bred of Phantom Polski and Snarky Deutsch, Old Ones Engendered by the Quirks of Gertrude Stein and Mi Fu 15 free
274 Feb. 2018 Kateřina Svobodová
Charles University, Prague
Iranian and Hellenistic Architectural Elements in Chinese Art 36 free
273 Nov. 2017 ZHANG He
William Paterson University
Are Olmec Scripts Chinese? A Study on the Olmec Iconographic Symbols and Mesoamerican Writing 21 free
272 Oct. 2017 David K. Schneider, ed.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Poet as Scholar: Essays and Translations in Honor of Jonathan Chaves 449 free
271 June 2017 Christopher P. Atwood
University of Pennsylvania
The 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 University
The Chinese Mosquito: A Literary Theme 50 free
269 May 2017 Kristen Pearson
University of Pennsylvania
Chasing the Shaman’s Steed: The Horse in Myth from Central Asia to Scandinavia 21 free
268 May 2017 Julie Lee Wei
Palo Alto, California
Translator’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 Vermont
The 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 York
The End of Fiction, the Start of Politics: Lu Xun in 1926–1927 29 free
265 Jan. 2017 Peng Peng
Princeton University
A 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 Pennsylvania
Sinitic Language and Script in East Asia: Past and Present vi, 202 free
263 Dec. 2016 Brian R. Pellar
Boston, MA
The 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, IL
Patterns of Sound Correspondence between Taiwanese and Germanic/Latin/Greek/Romance Lexicons, Part I 239 free
261 May 2016 André Bueno
Rio de Janeiro State University
Roman Views of the Chinese in Antiquity 21 free
260 Dec. 2015 Lucas Christopoulos
Lausanne, Switzerland
Greek Influences on the Pazyryk-style Wrestling Motif of the Keshengzhuang Bronze Buckles 13 free
259 Nov. 2015 J. P. Mallory
Queen’s University, Belfast
The Problem of Tocharian Origins: An Archaeological Perspective 63 free
258 Oct. 2015 Lyndon A. Arden-Wong
Macquarie University, Sydney
Irina A. Arzhantseva
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Olga N. Inevatkina
State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
Reflecting on the Rooftops of the Eastern Uighur Khaganate: A Preliminary Study of Uighur Roof Tiles 72 free
257 May 2015 ZHANG He
William Paterson University
The Terminology for Carpets in Ancient Central Asia 35 free
256 April 2015 Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
Language and Ideology in Nationalist and Communist China 72 free
255 Feb. 2015 Jens Østergaard Petersen
Copenhagen
The Zuozhuan Story about Qi Xi’s Recommendations and Its Sources 50 free
254 Jan. 2015 Michael Turk
Paradise, California
Majiayao Legacy: A Neolithic Record of Astronomy, Acupuncture, and Midwifery 67 free
253 Dec. 2014 Alessandro Berio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The 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, Moscow
translated by Rostislav Berezkin
Fudan University, Shanghai
Dao and Brahman: The Phenomenon of Primordial Supreme Unity 33 free
251 Aug. 2014 Yu Taishan
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Name “Sakā” 10 free
250 July 2014 Andrew Chittick
Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
Vernacular Languages in the Medieval Jiankang Empire 25 free
249 June 2014 Jonathan Ratcliffe
Monash University
Arimaspians 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 College
On the Date of the Aryan Religion, and the Minoan Religion of the Bull 16 free
247 April 2014 Yu Taishan
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Sui Dynasty and the Western Regions 24 free
246 April 2014 Brian R. Pellar
Boston, Massachusetts
On the Origins of the Alphabet: New Evidence 22 free
245 March 2014 Gaby Bamana
University of Wales
Dogs 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 Florida
Rhetoric of the Loom: Discursive Weaving Women in Chinese and Greek Traditions 22 free
243 Dec. 2013 Rostislav Berezkin
Fudan University
From 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 Sciences
China and the Ancient Mediterranean World: A Survey of Ancient Chinese Sources268 free
241 Oct. 2013 Catalin Anghelina
Columbus State Community College
On the Nature of the Vedic Gods 198 free
240 Sept. 2013 Miriam Robbins Dexter
UCLA
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
Sacred Display: New Findings 122 free
239 Aug. 2013 Eric P. Hamp
University of Chicago
with Annotation and Comments by Douglas Q. Adams
University of Idaho
The Expansion of the Indo-European Languages: An Indo-Europeanist’s Evolving View 14 free
238 May
2013
Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
with contributions by E. Bruce Brooks
University of Massachusetts
Was There a Xià Dynasty? 39 free
237 April
2013
Victor H. Mair and Cheng Fangyi
University of Pennsylvania and Tsinghua University
Kungang (昆岗): The Making of an Imaginary Archaeological Culture 32 free
236 April
2013
Wan Kong Ann
Tsinghua University
Examining the Connection Between Ancient China and Borneo Through Santubong Archaeological Sites 18 free
235 March
2013
Scott A. Barnwell
London, Ontario, Canada
The Evolution of the Concept of De  in Early China 83 free
234 March
2013
James M. Hargett
The 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.
2013
Johan Elverskog
Southern Methodist University
China and the New Cosmopolitanism 30 free
232 Nov.
2012
Huili Zheng
Saint Vincent College
Gendering Other: The Representation of Foreigners in Yesou puyan 39 free
231 Oct.
2012
Heleanor Feltham
University of New South Wales
Encounter with a Tiger Traveling West 29 free
230 Aug.
2012
Lucas Christopoulos
Kobe, Japan
Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD) 79 free
229 Aug.
2012
Joshua A. Fogel
York University, Toronto
New Thoughts on an Old Controversy: Shina as a Toponym for China 25 free
228 July
2012
Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
The “Silk Roads” in Time and Space: Migrations, Motifs, and Materials 308 free
227 July
2012
Hans Loeschner
Vienna
The Stūpa of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka the Great, with Comments on the Azes Era and Kushan Chronology 24 free
226 June
2012
ZHOU Youguang
Beijing
To Inherit the Ancient Teachings of Confucius and Mencius and Establish Modern Confucianism 21 free
225 June
2012
Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Bard College
The Image of the Winged Celestial and Its Travels along the Silk Road 45 free
224 May
2012
Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
Developments in Chinese Language and Script During the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 130 free
223 April
2012
Bertrand Arnaud
Paris 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
2012
John R. McRae and Jan Nattier, eds.
 
Buddhism Across Boundaries: The Interplay of Indian, Chinese, and Central Asian Source Materials 260 free
221 Jan.
2012
Conal Boyce
Century 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.
2012
Mark Bender
Ohio State University
Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki and “Axlu yyr kut”: Native Tongues in Literatures of Cultural Transition 25 free
219 Jan.
2012
Brian R. Pellar
Boston, 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.
2011
Michael Turk
Paradise, California
Magician’s Map 26 free
217 Dec.
2011
Jin GUAN
University of Pennsylvania
Guanxi: The Key to Achieving Success in China 10 free
216 Oct.
2011
ZHANG He
William Paterson University
Is Shuma the Chinese Analog of Soma/Haoma? A Study of Early Contacts between Indo-Iranians and Chinese 36 free
215 Sept.
2011
Matthew Anderson
University of Pennsylvania
An Investigation of Orthographic Variance in Shang Writing 16 free
214 Sept.
2011
Mark A. Riddle
Pleasant Grove, Utah
Tennō (天皇): The Central Asian Origin of Japan’s Solar Kingship 25 free
213 Aug.
2011
Xiang WAN
University of Pennsylvania
Early Development of Bronze Metallurgy in Eastern Eurasia 17 free
212 July
2111
YU Taishan
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Origin of the Kushans 22 free
211 May
2011
ZHOU Jixu
Sichuan Normal University
Confucius and Lao Zi: Their Differing Social Foundations and Cultures 18 free
210 April
2011
Mark A. Riddle
Pleasant Grove, Utah
Turkic “Balbal” in Japan 14 free
209 April
2011
Mark A. Riddle
Pleasant Grove, Utah
Japan and Inner Asia: Some Connections 23 free
208 Feb.
2011
Victor H. Mair, ed.
University of Pennsylvania
Reviews XIII 120 free
207 Oct.
2010
Randolph Ford
New York University
Barbaricum Depictum: Images of the Germani and Xiongnu in the Works of Tacitus and Sima Qian 31 free
206 Aug.
2010
Heleanor B. Feltham
University of New South Wales
Lions, Silks and Silver: The Influence of Sasanian Persia 51 free
205 July
2010
Heleanor B. Feltham
University of New South Wales
Nomad Culture, Greek Style: Steppes Jewellery and Adornment 31 free
204 June
2010
YU Taishan
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Earliest Tocharians in China 78 free
203 June
2010
Donald F. Beaumont
Senior University, Georgetown, Texas
How the Earth’s Geology Determined Human History 93 free
202 May
2010
David McCraw
University of Hawaii
An “ABC” Exercise in Old Sinitic Lexical Statistics 42 free
201 May
2010
Hoong Teik TOH
Johor, Malaysia
Notes on the Earliest Sanskrit Word Known in Chinese 10 free
200 April
2010
Urs App
Swiss National Science Foundation
Arthur Schopenhauer and China: A Sino-Platonic Love Affair viii, 164 free
199 March
2010
Tae Hyun KIM
Berkeley
Other Laozi Parallels in the Hanfeizi: An Alternative Approach to the Textual History of the Laozi and Early Chinese Thought 76 free
198 Feb.
2010
Doug Hitch
Whitehorse, Yukon
Aramaic Script Derivatives in Central Eurasia 18 free
197 Jan.
2010
YU Taishan
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Communication Lines between East and West as Seen in the Mu Tianzi Zhuan 57 free
196 Dec.
2009
Brian R. Pellar
San Diego, California
On the Origins of the Alphabet 46 free
195 Dec.
2009
John L. Sorenson
Brigham Young University
A Complex of Ritual and Ideology Shared by Mesoamerica and the Ancient Near East 134 free
194 Nov.
2009
Heleanor B. Feltham
University of New South Wales
Justinian and the International Silk Trade 40 free
193 Nov.
2009
edited and with a foreword by Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
Women and Men, Love and Power: Parameters of Chinese Fiction and Drama 180 free
192 Sept.
2009
John C. Didier
Colorado 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)
  1. The Ancient Eurasian World and the Celestial Pivot
  2. Representations and Identities of High Powers in Neolithic and Bronze China
  3. Terrestrial and Celestial Transformations in Zhou and Early-Imperial China
c. 1000 free
191 July
2009
Urs App
Swiss National Science Foundation
William Jones’s Ancient Theology 125 free
190 June
2009
Pita Kelekna
New York City
The Politico-Economic Impact of the Horse on Old World Cultures: An Overview 31 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
Sinographic Languages: The Past, Present, and Future of Script Reform 101 free
188 May
2009
Geoff Wade
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
The Polity of Yelang (夜郎) and the Origins of the Name ‘China’ 26 free
187 April
2009
Xiuqin Zhou
University of Pennsylvania
Zhaoling: The Mausoleum of Emperor Tang Taizong 380 free
186 March
2009
Doug Hitch
 
The Special Status of Turfan 61 free
185 Nov.
2008
Jan Romgard
Stockholm 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.
2008
Xiang Li
Seattle, Washington
Irony Illustrated: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Situational Irony in China and the United States 59 free
183 Oct.
2008
Chunwei Song
Peking 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.
2008
Aurelia Campbell, Jeffrey Rice, Daniel Sungbin Sou, and Lala Zuo
University of Pennsylvania
The Cult of the Bodhisattva Guanyin in Early China and Korea 117 free
181 Aug.
2008
Matteo Compareti
Venice, Italy
Traces of Buddhist Art in Sogdiana 42 free
180 April
2008
Amber R. Woodward A Survey of Li Yang Crazy English 71 free
179 Feb.
2008
Julie M. Groves
Hong 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.
2008
Victor H. Mair
University 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.
2007
Beverley Davis
Merit, Texas
Timeline of the Development of the Horse 186 free
176 May
2007
Eric Henry
University of North Carolina
The Submerged History of Yuè 36 free
175 Dec.
2006
Zhou Jixu
Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Chinese Department, Sichuan Normal University
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124 Aug.
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114 March
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113 Aug.
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112 July
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109 Oct.
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105 Aug.
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102 March
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96 June 1999 E. Bruce Brooks
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84 Oct. 1998 Ulf Jäger
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77 Jan. 1998 Daniel Hsieh
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Georgetown University
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University of Wisconsin Whitewater
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University of Pennsylvania
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24 Aug. 1991 David A. Utz
University of Pennsylvania
Language, Writing, and Tradition in Iran 24 PDF: free;
hard copy: $6.50
23 April 1991 Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
Tracks of the Tao, Semantics of Zen 10 PDF: free;
hard copy: $3.50
22 March 1991 David Moser
University of Michigan
Slips of the Tongue and Pen in Chinese 45 PDF: free;
hard copy: $8.50
21 Dec. 1990 Philippa Jane Benson
Carnegie Mellon University
Two Cross-Cultural Studies on Reading Theory 9, 13 PDF: free;
hard copy: $8.50
20 Oct. 1990 Victor H. Mair
University 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 1990 Bosat Man
Nalanda
Backhill/Peking/Beijing 6 PDF: free;
hard copy: $2.50
18 May 1990 Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
Two Non-Tetragraphic Northern Sinitic Languages
  1. Implications of the Soviet Dungan Script for Chinese Language Reform
  2. Who Were the Gyámi?
28 PDF: free;
hard copy: $7.00
17 April 1990 Heather Peters
University Museum of Philadelphia
Tattooed Faces and Stilt Houses: Who Were the Ancient Yue? 28 PDF: free;
hard copy: $4.50
16 March 1990 Victor H. Mair
University of Pennsylvania
Three Brief Essays Concerning Chinese Tocharistan 16 PDF: free;
hard copy: $5.50
15 Jan. 1990 George Cardona
University of Pennsylvania
On Attitudes Toward Language in Ancient India 19 PDF: free;
hard copy: $3.50
14 Dec. 1989 various Reviews (II) 69 PDF: free;
hard copy: $7.50
13 Oct. 1989 Jiaosheng Wang
Shanghai
The Complete Ci-Poems of Li Qingzhao: A New English Translation xii, 122 PDF: free;
hard copy: $18.00
12 Aug. 1989 Victor H. Mair
University 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 1989 Edward Shaughnessy
University of Chicago
Western Cultural Innovations in China, 1200 BC 8 PDF: free;
hard copy: $2.00
10 June 1989 Pratoom Angurarohita
Chulalongkorn University Bangkok
Buddhist Influence on the Neo-Confucian Concept of the Sage 31 PDF: free;
hard copy: $6.00
9 Dec. 1988 Soho Machida
Daitoku-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. 1988 various Reviews (I) ii, 39 PDF: free;
hard copy: $7.50
7 Jan. 1988 Chang Tsung-tung
Goethe-Universität
Indo-European Vocabulary in Old Chinese i, 56 PDF: free;
hard copy: $10.00
6 Jan. 1988 J. Marshall Unger
University of Hawaii
Computers and Japanese Literacy: Nihonzin no Yomikaki Nôryoku to Konpyûta. This is a parallel text in Japanese (in romanization) and English. 13 PDF: free;
hard copy: $3.00
5 Dec. 1987 Eric A. Havelock
Vassar College
Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet 4 PDF: free;
hard copy: $2.00
4 Nov. 1987 Robert M. Sanders
University of Hawaii
The Four Languages of “Mandarin” 14 PDF: free;
hard copy: $2.00
3 March 1987 Victor H. Mair
University 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. 1986 Andrew Jones
Hiroshima
The Poetics of Uncertainty in Early Chinese Literature 45 PDF: free;
hard copy: $3.00
1 Feb. 1986 Victor H. Mair
University 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
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