Sino-Platonic Papers has just released online its second compilation of book reviews. Here are the books discussed. (Note: The links below do not lead to the reviews but to other material. Use the link above.)

Invited Reviews

• William A. Boltz, “The Typological Analysis of the Chinese Script.” A review article of John DeFrancis, Visible Speech, the Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems.
• Paul Varley and Kumakura Isao, eds., Tea in Japan: Essays on the History of Chanoyu. Reviewed by William R. LaFleur .
• Vladimir N. Basilov, ed., Nomads of Eurasia. Reviewed by David A. Utz.

Reviews by the Editor

• “Philosophy and Language.” A review article of Françcois Jullien, Procès ou Création: Une introduction a la pensée des lettrés chinois.

Language and Linguistics

• W. South Coblin, A Handbook of Eastern Han Sound Glosses.
• Weldon South Coblin. A Sinologist’s Handlist of Sino-Tibetan Lexical Comparisons.
• ZHOU Zhenhe and YOU Rujie. Fangyan yu Zhongguo Wenhua [Topolects and Chinese Culture].
• CHOU Fa-kao. Papers in Chinese Linguistics and Epigraphy.
• ZENG Zifan. Guangzhouhua Putonghua Duibi Qutan [Interesting Parallels between Cantonese and Mandarin].
• Luciana Bressan. La Determinazione delle Norme Ortografiche del Pinyin.
• JIANG Shaoyu and XU Changhua, tr. Zhongguoyu Lishi Wenfa [A Historical Grammar of Modern Chinese] by OTA Tatsuo.
• McMahon, et al. Expository Writing in Chinese.
• P. C. T’ung and D. E. Pollard. Colloquial Chinese.
• Li Sijing, Hanyu “er” Yin Shih Yanjiu [Studies on the History of the “er” Sound in Sinitic].
• Maurice Coyaud, Les langues dans le monde chinois.
• Patricia Herbert and Anthony Milner, eds., South-East Asia: Languages and Literatures; A Select Guide.
• Andrew Large, The Artificial Language Movement.
• Wilhelm von Humboldt, On Language: The Diversity of Hunan Language-Structure and Its Influence on the Mental Development of Mankind.
• Vitaly Shevoroshkin, ed., Reconstructing Languages and Cultures.
• Jan Wind, et al., eds., Studies in Language Origins.

Short Notices

• A. Kondratov, Sounds and Signs.
• Jeremy Campbell, Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life.
• Pitfalls of the Tetragraphic Script.

Lexicography and Lexicology

• MIN Jiaji, et al., comp., Hanyu Xinci Cidian [A Dictionary of New Sinitic Terms]
• LYU Caizhen, et al., comp., Xiandai Hanyu Nanci Cidian [A Dictionary of Difficult Terms in Modern Sinitic].
• Tom McArthur, Worlds of Reference: Lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer.

A Bouquet of Pekingese Lexicons

• JIN Shoushen, comp., Beijinghua Yuhui [Pekingese Vocabulary].
• SONG Xiaocai and MA Xinhua, comp., Beijinghua Ciyu Lishi [Pekingese Expressions with Examples and Explanations] .
• SONG Xiaocai and MA Xinhua, comp., Beijinghua Yuci Huishi [Pekingese Words and Phrases with Explanations] .
• FU Min and GAO Aijun, comp., Beijinghua Ciyu (Dialectical Words and Phrases in Beijing).

A Bibliographical Trilogy

• Paul Fu-mien Yang, comp., Chinese Linguistics: A Selected and Classified Bibliography.
• Paul Fu-mien Yang, comp., Chinese Dialectology: A Selected and Classified Bibliography.
• Paul Fu-mien Yang, comp., Chinese Lexicology and Lexicography: A Selected and Classified Bibliography.

Orality and Literacy

• Jack Goody. The interface between the written and the oral.
• Jack Goody. The logic of writing and the organization of society.
• Deborah Tannen, ed., Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality and Literacy.

Society and Culture

• Scott Simmie and Bob Nixon, Tiananmen Square.
• Thomas H. C. Lee, Government Education and Examinations in Sung China.
• ZHANG Zhishan, tr. and ed., Zhongguo zhi Xing [Record of a Journey to China].
• LIN Wushu, Monijiao ji Qi Dongjian [Manichaeism and Its Eastward Expansion].
• E. N. Anderson, The Food of China.
• K. C. Chang, ed., Food in Chinese Culture: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives.
• Jacques Gemet, China and the Christian Impact: A Conflict of Cultures.
• D. E. Mungello, Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology.

Short Notice

• Roben Jastrow, The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe.

In Memoriam
Chang-chen HSU
August 6, 1957 – June 27, 1989

• Hsu Chang-chen, ed., and tr., Yin-tu hsien-tai hsiao-shuo hsüan [A Selection of Contemporary Indian Fiction].
• Hsu Chang-chen, T’o-fu tzu-huiyen-chiu (Mastering TOEFL Vocabulary).
• Hsu Chang-chen, Tsui-chung-yao-te i pai ke Ying-wen tzu-shou tzu-ken (100 English Prefixes and Word Roots).
• Hsu Chang-chen, Fa-wen tzu-hui chieh-koufen-hsi — tzu-shou yü tzu-ken (Les préfixes et les racines de la langue française).
• Hsu Chang-chen, comp. and tr., Hsi-yü yü Fo-chiao wen-shih lun-chi (Collection of Articles on Studies of Central Asia, India, and Buddhism).

This is SPP no. 14, from December 1989. The entire text is now online as a 7.3 MB PDF.

See my earlier post for the contents of the first SPP volume of reviews and a link to the full volume.