DOCSLIB.ORG

Bibliography

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Bibliography BIBLIOGRAPHY N.B.: If the note refers to a primary source, the reference will be located in the first part of the bibliography, arranged by language; otherwise it will be found in the secondary literature, arranged in alphabetical order. Thus, Sims-Williams, 2001, a translation of Sogdian Ancient Letter II, will be found in the first part, not the second. Sources Chinese Sources Dynastic Histories and Political Texts Bei shi , by Li Yanshou, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974. Han shu , by Ban Gu, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1962. Han shu : Hulsewé, A. F. P., China in Central Asia: the Early Stage: 125 B.C.–A.D. 23. An annotated translation of chapters 61 and 96 of the History of the Former Han Dynasty, with an introduction by M. A. N. Loewe, Leiden: Brill, 1979, 273 p. Hou Han shu , by Fan Ye, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1965. Hou Han shu : Chavannes, É., “Les Pays d’Occident d’après le Heou Han chou,” T’oung Pao, series II, vol. VIII, 1907, pp. 149–234, and Chinese text. Jin shu , by Fang Xuanling, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974. Jiu Tang shu , by Liu Xu, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1975. Liang shu , by Yao Silian, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1973. Sanguo zhi , by Chen Shou, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1962. Shiji , by Sima Qian , Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985. Shiji , Watson, B. (trans.): Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty II, New York: Columbia University Press, 2nd ed. rev., 1993, 506 p. Sui shu , by Wei Zheng, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1973. Song shi , by Tuotuo, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1977. Tongdian , by Du You , Changsha, Yuelu shushe, 1995. Tongzhi , by Zheng Qiao , (Wenyuan ge Siku quanshu, shibu: bieshi lei, no. 380), Taibei: Taiwan Shangwu yinshuguan, 1986. Wei shu , by Wei Shou, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974. Wei lüe : Chavannes, É., “Les Pays d’Occident d’après le Wei Lio,” T’oung Pao, series II, vol. VI, 1905, pp. 519–571. Xin Tang shu , by Ouyang Xiu, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1975. Zhou shu , by Linghu Defen, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1971. Zizhi tongjian , by Sima Guang , Beijing: Guji chubanshe, 1956. 338 bibliography Thematic Translations Chavannes, É., Documents sur les Tou-kiue (Turcs) occidentaux, Saint Petersburg, 1903, reprinted Paris: A. Maisonneuve, 1973, 378 p. + 110 p. (notes additionnelles). Liu Mau-Tsai, Die chinesischen Nachrichten zur Geschichte der Ost-Türken (T’u Küe), (Göttinger asiatische Forschungen, 10), 2 vols., Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1958, 831 p. Histoire d’An Lushan : Rotours, R. des, (ed. and trans.), Histoire de Ngan Louchan (Ngan Louchan che tsi), (Bibliothèque de l’Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, vol. XVIII), Paris: PUF, 1962, 398 p. Mackerras, C., The Uighur Empire (744–840) According to T’ang Dynastic Histories, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1972, 226 p. Buddhist Texts Gaoseng zhuan : Shih, R. (trans., annot.), Biographies des Moines éminents (Kao Seng Tchouan) de Houeikiao, (Bibliothèque du Muséon, 54), Louvain: Institut Orientaliste, 1968, 177 p. + xxiv p. Chin. text. Xuanzang : Chinese text: Da Tang Xiyu ji , Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1991, trans.: Beal, S., The Life of Hiuen Tsiang, reprinted Delhi, 1973, 218 p. Xuanzang, Faxian , Song Yun: Beal, S., Si Yu Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World. Translated from the Chinese of Hiuen Tsiang AD 629, 1884, reprinted New Delhi, 1983, 370 p. Yijing : I Tsing, Mémoire composé à l’époque de la grande dynastie T’ang sur les religieux éminents qui allèrent chercher la Loi dans les Pays d’Occident, Chavannes, É. (Fr. trans.), Paris: Leroux, 1894, 214 p. Huichao : Fuchs, W. (trans.), “Hueich’ao’s Pilgerreise durch Nordwestindien und Zentralasien um 726,” Sitzungberichten der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philhist. Klasse, XXX, Berlin, 1939, pp. 426–469. Business Documents, and Others Chavannes, É., Les documents chinois découverts par Aurel Stein dans les sables du Turkestan Oriental, Oxford: University Press, 1913, 232 p. + 37 pl. Tulufan chutu wenshu , 10 vols., Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1981–1991. Tulufan chutu wenshu , 4 vols., Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1992–1996 (illustrated edition). Liu Jinglong , Li Yukun , Longmen shiku beike tiji huilu , Record of Inscriptions on Stelae at the Longmen Caves, 2 vols., Encyclopaedia Sinica Publishing House , 1998, 670 p. Ikeda On, Ancient Chinese Household Registers and Related Documents; A Historical Study; General Introduction and Collected Documents, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Institute of Oriental Culture, 1979, 669 p. Yamamoto, T., Ikeda, O., Okano, M., Tun Huang and Turfan Documents Concerning Social and Economic History, I Legal texts, 2 vols., Tokyo: The Tokyo Bunko, 1978 and 1980, 130 p. + 106 p..
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Kūnqǔ in Practice: a Case Study
    KŪNQǓ IN PRACTICE: A CASE STUDY A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THEATRE OCTOBER 2019 By Ju-Hua Wei Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth A. Wichmann-Walczak, Chairperson Lurana Donnels O’Malley Kirstin A. Pauka Cathryn H. Clayton Shana J. Brown Keywords: kunqu, kunju, opera, performance, text, music, creation, practice, Wei Liangfu © 2019, Ju-Hua Wei ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to express my gratitude to the individuals who helped me in completion of my dissertation and on my journey of exploring the world of theatre and music: Shén Fúqìng 沈福庆 (1933-2013), for being a thoughtful teacher and a father figure. He taught me the spirit of jīngjù and demonstrated the ultimate fine art of jīngjù music and singing. He was an inspiration to all of us who learned from him. And to his spouse, Zhāng Qìnglán 张庆兰, for her motherly love during my jīngjù research in Nánjīng 南京. Sūn Jiàn’ān 孙建安, for being a great mentor to me, bringing me along on all occasions, introducing me to the production team which initiated the project for my dissertation, attending the kūnqǔ performances in which he was involved, meeting his kūnqǔ expert friends, listening to his music lessons, and more; anything which he thought might benefit my understanding of all aspects of kūnqǔ. I am grateful for all his support and his profound knowledge of kūnqǔ music composition. Wichmann-Walczak, Elizabeth, for her years of endeavor producing jīngjù productions in the US.
    [Show full text]
  • 002170196E1c16a28b910f.Pdf
    6 THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015 DOCUMENT CHINA DAILY 7 JUSTICE INTERPOL LAUNCHES GLOBAL DRAGNET FOR 100 CHINESE FUGITIVES It’s called Operation Sky Net. Amid the nation’s intensifying anti­graft campaign, arrest warrants were issued by Interpol China for former State employees and others suspected of a wide range of corrupt practices. China Daily was authorized by the Chinese justice authorities to publish the information below. Language spoken: Liu Xu Charges: Place of birth: Anhui property and goods Language spoken: Zeng Ziheng He Jian Qiu Gengmin Wang Qingwei Wang Linjuan Chinese, English Sex: Male Embezzlement Language spoken: of another party by Chinese Sex: Male Sex: Male Sex: Male Sex: Male Sex: Female Charges: Date of birth: Chinese, English fraud Charges: Date of birth: Date of birth: Date of birth: Date of birth: Date of birth: Accepting bribes 07/02/1984 Charges: Embezzlement Embezzlement 15/07/1971 14/11/1965 15/05/1962 03/01/1972 17/07/1980 Place of birth: Beijing Place of birth: Henan Language spoken: Place of birth: Place of birth: Place of birth: Language spoken: Language spoken: Chinese Zhejiang Jinan, Shandong Jilin Chinese, English Chinese Charges: Graft Language spoken: Language spoken: Language spoken: Charges: Corruption Charges: Chinese Chinese, English Chinese Embezzlement Charges: Contract Charges: Commits Charges: fraud, and flight of fraud by means of a Misappropriation of Yang Xiuzhu 25/11/1945 Place of birth: Chinese Zhang Liping capital contribution Chu Shilin letter of credit Dai Xuemin public funds Sex: Female
    [Show full text]
  • A Data Compression Algorithm Based on Adaptive Huffman Code for Wireless Sensor Networks
    2011 Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation (ICICTA 2011) Shenzhen, China 28 – 29 March 2011 Volume 1 Pages 1-618 IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1188E-PRT ISBN: 978-1-61284-289-9 1/4 2011 Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation ICICTA 2011 Table of Contents Volume - 1 Preface - Volume 1.....................................................................................................................................................xxv Conference Committees - Volume 1.......................................................................................................................xxvi Reviewers - Volume 1.............................................................................................................................................xxviii Session 1: Advanced Comptation Theory and Applications A Data Compression Algorithm Based on Adaptive Huffman Code for Wireless Sensor Networks .............................................................................................................................................................3 Mo Yuanbin, Qiu Yubing, Liu Jizhong, and Ling Yanxia A Genetic Algorithm for Solving Weak Nonlinear Bilevel Programming Problems ....................................................7 Yulan Xiao and Hecheng Li A Layering Learning Routing Algorithm of WSNs Based on ADS Approach ............................................................10 Wang Zhaoqing and Zhong Sheng A Load Distribution Optimization among
    [Show full text]
  • The Later Han Empire (25-220CE) & Its Northwestern Frontier
    University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2012 Dynamics of Disintegration: The Later Han Empire (25-220CE) & Its Northwestern Frontier Wai Kit Wicky Tse University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations Part of the Asian History Commons, Asian Studies Commons, and the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Tse, Wai Kit Wicky, "Dynamics of Disintegration: The Later Han Empire (25-220CE) & Its Northwestern Frontier" (2012). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 589. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/589 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/589 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Dynamics of Disintegration: The Later Han Empire (25-220CE) & Its Northwestern Frontier Abstract As a frontier region of the Qin-Han (221BCE-220CE) empire, the northwest was a new territory to the Chinese realm. Until the Later Han (25-220CE) times, some portions of the northwestern region had only been part of imperial soil for one hundred years. Its coalescence into the Chinese empire was a product of long-term expansion and conquest, which arguably defined the egionr 's military nature. Furthermore, in the harsh natural environment of the region, only tough people could survive, and unsurprisingly, the region fostered vigorous warriors. Mixed culture and multi-ethnicity featured prominently in this highly militarized frontier society, which contrasted sharply with the imperial center that promoted unified cultural values and stood in the way of a greater degree of transregional integration. As this project shows, it was the northwesterners who went through a process of political peripheralization during the Later Han times played a harbinger role of the disintegration of the empire and eventually led to the breakdown of the early imperial system in Chinese history.
    [Show full text]
  • Preface of Selections of Refined Literature”
    Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 416 4th International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2020) Exploration on the Completion Time of the “Preface of Selections of Refined Literature” Yong Yu The College of Literature and Journalism Sichuan University Chengdu, China Abstract—The opinions on the completion time of the At the end of the "Preface of Selections of Refined "Preface of Selections of Refined Literature" have always been Literature", it describes the beginning year and end year of divergent and inconsistent. To examine its completion time, it the works collected in "Selections of Refined Literature" and is necessary to combine various internal and external factors the total number of volumes, and explains the basis of the such as the preface, the compilation style of "Selections of style order arrangement. Especially, the poems are Refined Literature", the life story of the editor, and the process subdivided into subtypes and sequenced according to the of writing the book. It helps to make clear the long-standing times. Obviously, it is neither possible for the editor to related disputes in the researches on "anthologizing presume the total number of volumes compiled before principles". completion of "Selections of Refined Literature" nor possible Keywords: “Preface of Selections of Refined Literature”, to previously have an idea of subdividing poems into Xiao Tong, completion time subtypes. If the "Preface of Selections of Refined Literature" was written in the compilation process but before completion I. INTRODUCTION of "Selections of Refined Literature", the editor would also not available to conclude that the total number of volumes is When was the "Preface of Selections of Refined thirty.
    [Show full text]
  • Scanned Using Book Scancenter 5033
    Chapter 5 Tang and the First Turkish Empire: From Appeasement to Conquest After the siege at Yanmen, Sui was on the verge of total collapse. A series of internal rebellions quickly turned into a turbulent civil war pit­ ting members of the ruling class against each other, and with different parts of the country under the control of local Sui generals sometimes facing rebel leaders, all of them soon contending for the greatest of all Chinese political prizes, the chance to replace a dynasty which had evi ­ dently lost the Mandate. Those nearest the northern frontier naturally sought the support of the Eastern Turks, just as Turkish leaders had sought Chinese eissistance in their own power struggles.^ Freed of interference from a strong Chinese power, both the East­ ern and Western Turkish qaghanates soon recovered their positions of dominance in their respective regions. The Eastern qaghanate under Shibi Qaghan expanded to bring into its sphere of influence the Khitan and Shi- wei in the east and the Tuyuhun and Gaochang in the west. The Western Turks again expandedall the way to Persia, incorporating the Tiele and the various oasis states in the Western Regions, which one after another be­ came their subjects, paying regular taxes to the Western Turks. After an initial period of appeasement, Tang succeeded in conquer­ ing the Eastern Turks in 630 and the Western Turks in 659. This chapter examines the reasons for Tang’s military success, and how Tang tried to bring the Turks under Chinese administration so as to build a genuinely universal empire.
    [Show full text]
  • Medical History Hare-Lip Surgery in the History Of
    Medical History http://journals.cambridge.org/MDH Additional services for Medical History: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here Hare-lip surgery in the history of traditional Chinese medicine Kan-Wen Ma Medical History / Volume 44 / Issue 04 / October 2000, pp 489 - 512 DOI: 10.1017/S0025727300067090, Published online: 16 November 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0025727300067090 How to cite this article: Kan-Wen Ma (2000). Hare-lip surgery in the history of traditional Chinese medicine. Medical History, 44, pp 489-512 doi:10.1017/S0025727300067090 Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/MDH, IP address: 144.82.107.82 on 08 Nov 2013 Medical History, 2000, 44: 489-512 Hare-Lip Surgery in the History of Traditional Chinese Medicine KAN-WEN MA* There have been a few articles published in Chinese and English on hare-lip surgery in the history of traditional Chinese medicine. They are brief and some of them are inaccurate, although two recent English articles on this subject have presented an adequate picture on some aspects.' This article offers unreported information and evidence of both congenital and traumatic hare-lip surgery in the history of traditional Chinese medicine and also clarifies and corrects some of the facts and mistakes that have appeared in works previously published either in Chinese or English. Descriptions of Hare-Lip and its Treatment in Non-Medical Literature The earliest record of hare-lip in ancient China with an imaginary explanation for its cause is found in jtk Huainan Zi, a book attributed to Liu An (179-122 BC).
    [Show full text]
  • Court Historiography in Early Tang China: Assigning a Place to History and Historians at the Palace
    COURT HISTORIOGRAPHY IN EARLY TANG CHINA: ASSIGNING A PLACE TO HISTORY AND HISTORIANS AT THE PALACE Isenbike Togan Introduction In Tang China (618–907 CE) policies and political interaction took shape at court, in the context of palace life. During the early Tang, court life came to include activities such as the writing of history: historians were assigned a place in the palace. The placement of the historians within the precincts of the palace was an illustration of the ‘politicization of history’, the institutional and political appropriation of history writing by the Tang court. This new trend did not only shape the interpretation of past events, but also the approach and methods of future historiography. It was during this time that the major histories of the preceding four centuries were written and the groundwork laid for future history writing by professional historians. These changes were initiated by the second Tang emperor Li Shimin, known as Tang Taizong (626–649). He was regarded as an exemplary figure by later dynasties; his reign of Zhen Guan (True Vision) is known in Chinese history as the ‘good rule of the Zhen Guan reign.’ This ‘Golden Age’ lasted for 23 years from 627 to 649. Taizong, who reached power by killing the crown prince and forcing his father to abdicate, was able to achieve high standing in history, irrespective of these events. He gained this standing initially through a policy of shar- ing power with political contestants and consolidated his position with a victory (630) over the Early Türk, the foreign power in the north and the west.
    [Show full text]
  • Oxford Handbooks Online
    Literary Learning: Encyclopedias and Epitomes Oxford Handbooks Online Literary Learning: Encyclopedias and Epitomes Xiaofei Tian The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature Edited by Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian Print Publication Date: May 2017 Subject: Classical Studies, Ancient Prose Literature Online Publication Date: Apr 2017 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199356591.013.10 Abstract and Keywords This chapter discusses two major ways of organizing and disseminating knowledge in premodern China, namely, compiling an encyclopedia and making an epitome. An encyclopedia, leishu, consists of extracts taken from a variety of earlier works and classified under different categories. It is supposed to present an organized system of knowledge of the world, reflecting an orderly universe in its comprehensive, structured arrangement of ideas, concepts, and things. The imperial commissioning of a large-scale encyclopedia is also a way of demonstrating the state’s cultural power and political legitimacy. An epitome (chao or shuchao) is usually based on either one work or one type of work; it includes what are considered key passages from a work, and sometimes summarizes or paraphrases the content of a work. The making and circulating of encyclopedia and epitome raise important questions about what, and how, people read in medieval Chinese society. Keywords: encyclopedia (leishu), epitome (chao/shuchao), epitome-making (chaoshu), knowledge organization, knowledge transmission, history of reading, history of the book Lazy King and Fatigued Prince IN Chinese antiquity, reading was a rare and cumbersome activity. It was a privilege of the ruling class, and yet a ruler might not always have the time or patience to engage in it.
    [Show full text]
  • Erlitou and Xia: a Dispute Between Chinese and Overseas Scholars
    Erlitou and Xia: A Dispute between Chinese and Overseas Scholars Chen Chun Fudan University Gong Xin Shanghai Museum ABSTRACT Based on a review of the excavation and research at the Erlitou site at Yanshi in Henan and the Xia Culture, this article explores the causes of dispute be- tween Chinese and overseas scholars concerning the study of early Chinese states, in terms of epistemology, archaeological paradigms, utilization of historical records, reasoning method and normative versus ideographic approaches. The argument of this article is that this dispute occurs not only from the differences in academic traditions, but also the methodological backwardness caused by a lack of international exchange. 1. INTRODUCTION The concept of the Xia Dynasty has played a crucial role in the explora- tion of the origin of incipient states in China. Since hard evidence for the existence of the Shang Dynasty was found at Yinxu, the substantiation of the Xia Dynasty is naturally the next item on the agenda. As early as the middle of the twentieth century, historian Fan Wenlan purported Xia to be the first dynasty in Chinese history on the basis of historical docu- ments such as Shang Shu and the Records of Historian (Shi Ji) (Fan 1994: 31). Following textural research into ‘the residential area of the Xia eth- nic group or the Xia tribe’, archaeologist Xu Xusheng suggested that the Luoyang plain in the central Henan Province and the lower reaches of the Fen River in the southwestern Shanxi Province might have been two potential areas where the Xia Dynasty might have existed and so went to Henan to conduct field surveys (Xu 1959: 593–596).
    [Show full text]
  • Abbreviations
    Abbreviations Baopuzi neipian Ge Hong 葛洪 (283–343), Baopuzi neipian 抱朴 子內篇, comp. Wang Ming 王明. Taibei: Liren shuju, 1981. Bao Tingbo 鮑廷博 (1728–1814), Yanshi jiaxun 顏氏家訓. Shugu tang ying Song ben chongdiao 述古堂影宋 本重雕. Zhibuzu zhai congshu 知不足齋叢書 11. Beihu lu Duan Gonglu 段公路 (fl. 869–871), Beihu lu北 戶錄. In Yingyin Wenyuange siku quanshu 景印文 淵閣四庫全書, Vol. 589. Taibei: Shangwu yinshu- guan, 1983. Bei Qi shu(BQS) Li Baiyao 李百藥 (564–647), comp. Bei Qi shu北 齊書. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1972. Bei shi(BS) Li Yanshou 李延壽 (fl. 620s–650s), comp. Bei shi 北史. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1972. Chen Yinke Chen Yinke 陳寅恪,“Cong shishi lun Qie yun” 從史實論切韻. Lingnan xuebao 嶺南學報 9.2 (1949): 1–18. Cheng Rong Cheng Rong程榮 (fl. late 16 th c.) collated, Yanshi jiaxun 顏氏家訓. Han Wei congshu 漢魏叢書 edi- tion. With Yan Rugui 顏如瓌 1518 preface and Yan Zhibang 顏志邦 1578 preface. Chuxue ji Xu Jian 徐堅 (659–729), comp. Chuxie ji 初學記. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1962. Dien Albert E. Dien, trans. with introduction and notes. Pei Chi shu 45: Biography of Yen Chih-t’ui. Würzburger Sino-Japonica. Bern: Herbert Lang, 1976. Fu Yue 傅鑰(傅太平) (1482–1540), Yanshi jiaxun 顏氏家 訓. Sibu congkan edition. Shanghai Hanfen lou photo-reprint of Fu Yue’s printed edition with Zhang Bi’s 張璧 1524 preface. Gu shi ji Feng Weine 馮惟訥 (1513–1572), comp. Gu shi ji 古詩紀. In Yingyin Wenyuan ge siku quanshu景 印文淵閣四庫全書, Vol. 1379. Taibei: Shangwu yinshuguan, 1983. Open Access. © 2021 Xiaofei Tian, published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
    [Show full text]
  • The Mausoleum of Emperor Tang Taizong
    SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS Number 187 April, 2009 Zhaoling: The Mausoleum of Emperor Tang Taizong by Xiuqin Zhou Victor H. Mair, Editor Sino-Platonic Papers Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA [email protected] www.sino-platonic.org SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series edited by Victor H. Mair. The purpose of the series is to make available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor actively encourages younger, not yet well established, scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. Contributions in any of the major scholarly languages of the world, including Romanized Modern Standard Mandarin (MSM) and Japanese, are acceptable. In special circumstances, papers written in one of the Sinitic topolects (fangyan) may be considered for publication. Although the chief focus of Sino-Platonic Papers is on the intercultural relations of China with other peoples, challenging and creative studies on a wide variety of philological subjects will be entertained. This series is not the place for safe, sober, and stodgy presentations. Sino-Platonic Papers prefers lively work that, while taking reasonable risks to advance the field, capitalizes on brilliant new insights into the development of civilization. The only style-sheet we honor is that of consistency. Where possible, we prefer the usages of the Journal of Asian Studies. Sinographs (hanzi, also called tetragraphs [fangkuaizi]) and other unusual symbols should be kept to an absolute minimum. Sino-Platonic Papers emphasizes substance over form.
    [Show full text]