{"id":3165,"date":"2010-03-01T18:20:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T10:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2010-03-01T18:20:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T10:20:38","slug":"recent-milestones-for-sino-platonic-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2010\/recent-milestones-for-sino-platonic-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"recent milestones for Sino-Platonic Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Web site for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/\"><em>Sino-Platonic Papers<\/em><\/a>, Professor Victor Mair&#8217;s iconoclastic journal, has expanded to the point that, as of the most recent batch of reissues, it offers more than half of the journal&#8217;s 198 (and counting) issues in full and for free. So if you haven&#8217;t visited that site recently you might want to have another look. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll mention just a few of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/news_archive.html\">recent additions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp122_chinese_africa.pdf\">The Magical <em>Kunlun<\/em> and &#8220;Devil Slaves&#8221;: Chinese Perceptions of Dark-skinned People and Africa before 1500<\/a>, by Julie Wilensky. Last summer I promised some friends in Beijing that I would get this one online. I&#8217;m less than a year behind, which means I&#8217;m improving&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp138_learn_chinese.pdf\">Dogs and Cats: Lessons from Learning Chinese<\/a>, by Julie Lee Wei. Most SPPs are full of details and references. This, however, is a lovely personal essay that I believe will strike a chord for many readers, especially those who count themselves as &#8220;overseas Chinese&#8221; and have had to work at learning Mandarin.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp116_chinese_lettered_words.pdf\">On the Problems of Chinese Lettered Words<\/a>, by Liu Yongquan of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences&#8217; Institute of Linguistics. This isn&#8217;t so much a list of words (which is the sort of thing that would become out of date almost as soon as it was issued) as a proposal for a classification system to deal with the different types of such terms. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp072_confucius.pdf\">The Life and Mentorship of Confucius<\/a>. This is by E. Bruce Brooks, an important and revolutionary scholar of Confucius. Unfortunately, at least from my point of view, Brooks prefers to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umass.edu\/wsp\/reference\/conventions\/romanization\/tables.html\">a romanization system of his own devising<\/a>; so that can take some getting used to.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp126_minnan_zutangji.pdf\">A Southern Min Word in the <em>Tsu-t\u2019ang chi<\/em><\/a>, by Tim Miller &#8212; a short piece for those of you who are especially interested in all things Hoklo\/Minnan\/Taiwanese.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other recent milestones for <em>SPP<\/em> include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the online availability of all twelve volumes to date of book reviews (nos. 8, 14, 31, 35, 46&#8230;). These in general are particular favorites of mine.<\/li>\n<li>the publication of the largest <em>SPP<\/em> to date: John C. Didier&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sino-platonic.org\/#n192\"><em>In and Outside the Square: The Sky and the Power of Belief in Ancient China and the World, c. 4500 BC &#8211; AD 200<\/em><\/a>, a massive work in three volumes. <\/li>\n<li>the <em>SPP<\/em> Web site achieving more than 1 million page views in 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below: A chart from SPP 198, <em>Aramaic Script Derivatives in Central Eurasia<\/em>, by Doug Hitch.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp198_aramaic_script.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2010\/03\/aramaic_scripts.gif\" alt=\"chart of scripts derived from Aramaic. See SPP 198 (the link for this image) for a version of this chart with machine-readable text.\" title=\"aramaic scripts\" width=\"510\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Web site for Sino-Platonic Papers, Professor Victor Mair&#8217;s iconoclastic journal, has expanded to the point that, as of the most recent batch of reissues, it offers more than half of the journal&#8217;s 198 (and counting) issues in full and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2010\/recent-milestones-for-sino-platonic-papers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,106,33,93,28,95,32,94,34,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","category-hanyu","category-hokkien","category-hoklo","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-mandarin","category-minnan","category-taiwanese","category-victor-h-mair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}