Phags-pa Chinese is the earliest form of the Chinese language to be written in a systematically devised alphabetic script. It is named after its creator, a bril

Phags-pa Chinese is the earliest form of the Chinese language to be written in a systematically devised alphabetic script. It is named after its creator, a bril

The study of early China has been radically transformed over the past fifty years by archaeological discoveries, including both textual and non-textual artefact

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to and from non-E

Although long out of date, Bernard Karlgren’s (1957) remains the most convenient work for looking up Middle Chinese (ca. A.D. 600) and Old Chinese (before 200