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Publications of Edwin G. Pulleyblank* Professor Emeritus University of British Columbia Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). 2008. Volume 2. Edited by Marjorie K.M. Chan and Hana Kang. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University. Pages 1061-1075. Publications of Edwin G. Pulleyblank* Professor Emeritus University of British Columbia BOOKS 1955 The Background of the Rebellion of An Lu-shan. London: Oxford Univ. Press. Chinese History and World History: An Inaugural Lecture. Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press. 1961 Historians of China and Japan. Edited with W.G. Beasley. London: Oxford University Press. 1984 Middle Chinese: A Study in Historical Phonology. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 1989 Studies in Language Origins, Volume 1. Edited with Jan Wind, Eric de Grolier, and Bernard H. Bichakjian. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins. 1991 A Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese and Early Mandarin. Vancouver: UBC Press. 1994 A Chinese Text in Central Asian Brahmi Script: New Evidence for the Pronunci- ation of Late Middle Chinese and Khotanese. With R. E. Emmerick. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. 1995 Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar. Vancouver: UBC Press. 2001 Essays on Tang and Pre-Tang China. Aldershot, GB, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2002 Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China. Aldershot, GB, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. * This publication list was compiled by Marjorie K.M. Chan in collaboration with her colleague and childhood classmate, Professor Jennifer W. Jay, building upon the list that they had prepared two decades ago for T’ang Studies (1989), and both adding entries from the online publication list at UBC’s website, and consulting with their former advisor, Professor E.G. Pulleyblank. Sources: T’ang Studies 7 (1989). [This volume is a Festschrift prepared by Jennifer W. Jay and Marjorie K.M. Chan to honor Professor Edwin G. Pulleyblank from some of his students.] Edwin G. Pulleyblank, Professor Emeritus. URL: <http://www.asia.ubc.ca/index.php?id=5053>. PUBLICATIONS OF E. G. PULLEYBLANK ARTICLES (Abbreviations for journal titles are listed on page 1075.) 1950 “The Tzyjyh tongjiann kaoyih and the Sources for the History of the Period 730- 763,” BSOAS 13: 448-473. 1952 “A Sogdian Colony in Inner Mongolia,” TP 41: 319-352. “An Rokuzan no shutsuji ni tsuite,” SZ 61: 329-345. 1953 “An Rokuzan no hanran no seijiteki haikaei,” TG 35: 92-205, 332-357. “Gentry Society,” BSOAS 15: 488-597. 1954 “China,” pp. 57-81 in D. Sinor, ed., Orientalism and History. Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons. Revised edition 1970, pp. 68-92. “The Date of the Stael-Holstein Roll,” AM 4: 90-97. “A Geographical Text of the Eighth Century,” pp. 301-308 in Silver Jubilee Volume of the Zinbun Kagaku Kenkyusyo, Kyoto University. 1956 “Some Remarks on the Toquzoghuz Problem,” UAJ 28: 35-42. “Chinese History and World History,” SMJ n.s. 7: 1-21. 1957 “The Shun-tsung shih-lu,” review article, BSOAS 19: 336-344. Obituary of Arthur Christopher Moule, JRAS (1957): 281. 1958 “A Case of Sandhi?” AM 6: 200-202. “The Origins and Nature of Chattel Slavery in China,” JESHO 1:185-200. 1959 “Fei 非, wei 唯 and Certain Related Words,” pp. 178-89 in S. Egerod and E. Glahn, eds., Studia Serica Bernhard Karlgren Dedicata. Copenhagen: Munksgaard. “Liu K’o, A Forgotten Rival of Han Yü,” AM 7: 145-160. 1960 “Studies in Early Chinese Grammar, Part I,” AM 8: 36-67. 1961 “Chinese Historical Criticism: Liu Chih-chi and Ssu-ma Kuang,” pp. 135-166 in Beasley and Pulleyblank, eds., Historians of China and Japan. “Registration of Population in China in the Sui and T’ang Periods,” JESHO 4: 289-301. 1962 “The Consonantal System of Old Chinese,” AM 9: 58-144, 206-265. 1963 “An Interpretation of the Vowel Systems of Old Chinese and Written Burmese,” AM 10: 200-22l. 1964 “The Origins of the Chinese Tonal System,” abstract, p. 599, in Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Linguists. The Hague: Mouton. 1062 PUBLICATIONS OF E. G. PULLEYBLANK “I-hsing’s Chain of Gnomons and the Pre-history of the Metric System,” Vistas in Astronomy 4: 3-28 (with A. Beer, Ho Pingyu, Lu Gwei-djen, J. Needham and G.Y. Thompson). “The Historiographical Tradition,” pp. 143-164 in Raymond Dawson, ed., The Legacy of China. London: Oxford Univ. Press. Dutch translation: “De historio- grafische traditie,” pp. 153-173 in De Chinese Traditie. Amsterdam: De Arbei- derspres, 1973. 1965 “Close/Open Ablaut in Sino-Tibetan,” pp. 230-240 in G.B. Milner and E.J.A. Henderson, eds., Indo-Pacific Linguistic Studies ( =Lingua 14). “The Indo-European Vowel System and the Qualitative Ablaut,” Word 21: 86- 10l. “The Transcription of Sanskrit k and kh in Chinese,” AM 11: 199-210. “The Chinese Name for the Turks,” JAOS 85: 121-125. “The Beguilement of Historicism,” in John Meskill, ed., The Pattern of Chinese History. Boston: D.C. Heath and Co. Reprinted for Chinese History and World History. 1966 “Chinese and Indo-Europeans,” JRAS (1966): 9-39. 1967 “T’ai-tsung,” EB, 1967 edition, v. 21, p. 629. “T’ang,” EB, 1967 edition, v. 21, p. 656. “Yüeh-chih,” EB, 1967 edition, v. 23, p. 914. 1968 “The Rhyming Categories of Li Ho (791-817),” THHP 7: 1-25. “Chinese Evidence for the Date of Kaniska,” pp. 247-258 in A.L.Basham, ed., Papers on the Date of Kaniska. Leiden: Brill. 1969 “The Semivowel ï in Vietnamese and Mandarin,” BIHP 39: 203-218. “The Unity of China,” pp. 74-93 in J. Kitagawa, ed., Understanding Modern China. Chicago: Quadrangle Books. 1970 “The Wu-sun and Sakas and the Yüeh-chih Migration,” BSOAS 33: 154-160. “Notes on the hP’ags-pa Alphabet for Chinese,” pp. 358-375 in M. Boyce and I. Gershevitch, eds., W.B. Henning Memorial Volume. London: Lund Humphries. 1970-71 “Late Middle Chinese,” AM 15: 197-239, 16: 121-168. 1972 “Word Families in Chinese: A Reconsideration,” Unicorn 9: 1-19. “Language and History,” JCLTA 7: 103-113. “Chūgokugo no tango kazoku no saikōsatu,” Chūgoku gogaku 216: 1-13. 1063 PUBLICATIONS OF E. G. PULLEYBLANK Translation of “Word Families in Chinese: A Reconsideration.” “The Analysis of Vowel Systems,” Unicorn 9: 78-107. “The Analysis of Vowel Systems,” ALH 14: 39-62. 1973 “Some New Hypotheses Concerning Word Families in Chinese,” JCL 1: 111-125. “Some Further Evidence Regarding Old Chinese -s and its Time of Disappear- ance,” BSOAS 36: 368-373. “How Rapidly Do Languages Change?” pp. 203-206 in Jacqueline M.C. Thomas and Lucien Bernot, eds., Langues, Techniques, Nature et Société, I: Approche Linguistique. Paris: Klincksieck. “An Lu-shan,” EB, 1974 edition. Macropaedia 1, p. 927. “Confucianism, History of,” EB, 1974 edition. Macropaedia 4, pp. 1099-1103. 1975 “Prehistoric East-West Contacts Across Eurasia,” PA 47: 500-508. 1976 “The An Lu-shan Rebellion and the Origins of Chronic Militarism in Late T’ang China,” pp. 33-60 in J.C. Perry and Bardwell L. Smith, eds., Essays on Tang Society. Leiden: Brill. 1977 “Linguistic Evidence for the Date of Han-shan,” abstract, pp. 273-276 in Actes du XXIXe Congrès International des Orientalistes, Paris, Juillet 1973, Section Chine Ancienne. Paris: L’ Asiathèque. 1977-78 “The Final Consonants of Old Chinese,” MS 33: 180-206. 1978 “The Nature of the Middle Chinese Tones and their Development to Early Man- darin,” JCL 6: 173-203. “Emphatic Negatives in Classical Chinese,” pp. 115-136 in David T. Roy and Tsuen·hsuin Tsien, eds., Ancient China: Studies in Early Civilization. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press. “Linguistic Evidence for the Date of Han-shan,” pp. 163-195 in Ronald C. Miao, ed., Chinese Poetry and Poetics, vo1. 1. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Research Center. “Abruptness and Gradualness in Phonological Change,” pp. 181-191 in Moham- med Ali Jazayery et a1., eds., Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honor of Archi- bald A. Hill, vo1. 3. Lisse: Peter De Ridder. Preface to R. W.L. Guisso, Wu Tse-t’ien and the Politics of Legitimation in T’ang China, pp. vii-ix. Bellingham: Western Washington University. 1979 “The Chinese Cyclical Signs as Phonograms,” JAOS 99: 24-38. 1064 PUBLICATIONS OF E. G. PULLEYBLANK “Some Examples of Colloquial Pronunciation from the Southern Liang Dynas- ty,” pp. 315-328 in Wolfgang Bauer, ed., Studia Sino-Mongolicas: Festschrift für Herbert Franke. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. 1979-80 “William L. Holland’s Contributions to Asian Studies in Canada and at the University of British Columbia,” PA 52: 591-594. 1980 “La Chine antique Revisited,” review article, PA 53: 115-119. 1981 “Distinctive Features of Vowels and Pekingese Phonology in Historical Per- spective,” pp. 75-93 in Proceedings of the International Conference on Sino- logy, August 15-17, 1980. Section on Linguistics and Paleography. Taipei: Aca- demia Sinica. “Han China in Central Asia’” IHR 3: 278-286 (review article on Hulsewé, China in Central Asia). “Some Notes on Chinese Historical Phonology,” BEFEO 69: 277-288. “The Problem of the Origin of Language: Can Linguistics Help in the Search for an Answer?” TRSC (1981): 127-145. 1982 “Loanwords as Evidence for Old Chinese Uvular Initials,” BIHP 53: 205-212. “Some Evidence on the Reconstruction of the zhen Rhyme Category in Old Chinese,” THHP n.s. 4: 249-256. 1983 “Middle Chinese Reflexes of Old Chinese Final Palatals, Labialvelars and Uvulars,” JAAS 25: 45-60. “Stages in the Transcription of Indian Words in Chinese from Han to T’ang,” pp. 73-110 in K. Röhrborn and W. Veenker, eds., Sprachen des Buddhismus in Zentralasien: Vorträge des Hamburger Symposions von 2. Juli bis 5. Juli 1981. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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