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New Materials on the Khitan Small Script : A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu and Yelü Xiangwen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Languages of Asia SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004212824
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Materials on the Khitan Small ScriptDDC classification:
  • 494.2
LOC classification:
  • PL3311.K45 .W8 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- New Materials on the Khitan Small Script -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Technical notes -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Khitan language -- 1.2. The Khitan scripts -- 1.3. Stages of decipherment -- 1.4. The Small Script corpus -- 1.5. The new materials -- 1.6. The graphic system -- 1.7. Romanizing Khitan -- 1.8. The new characters -- 2. Xiao Dilu -- 2.1. The cover stone -- 2.2. The base stone -- 2.3. Partial translation -- 2.4. General conclusions -- 3. Yelü Xiangwen -- 3.1. The base stone -- 3.2. The cover stone -- 3.3. Partial translation -- 3.4. General conclusions -- Postscript -- References -- Chart: List of Characters -- Index: List of Blocks -- Plates.
Summary: This volume contains a state-of-the-art survey of Khitan Small Script studies, accompanied by a critical analysis of two recently discovered and previously unpublished epigraphic documents.
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Intro -- New Materials on the Khitan Small Script -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Technical notes -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Khitan language -- 1.2. The Khitan scripts -- 1.3. Stages of decipherment -- 1.4. The Small Script corpus -- 1.5. The new materials -- 1.6. The graphic system -- 1.7. Romanizing Khitan -- 1.8. The new characters -- 2. Xiao Dilu -- 2.1. The cover stone -- 2.2. The base stone -- 2.3. Partial translation -- 2.4. General conclusions -- 3. Yelü Xiangwen -- 3.1. The base stone -- 3.2. The cover stone -- 3.3. Partial translation -- 3.4. General conclusions -- Postscript -- References -- Chart: List of Characters -- Index: List of Blocks -- Plates.

This volume contains a state-of-the-art survey of Khitan Small Script studies, accompanied by a critical analysis of two recently discovered and previously unpublished epigraphic documents.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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