{"id":806,"date":"2007-10-17T00:26:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T16:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/questions-on-the-origin-of-writing-spp-26\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:13:04","slug":"questions-on-the-origin-of-writing-spp-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/questions-on-the-origin-of-writing-spp-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions on the origin of writing: SPP 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; width: 130px; padding-bottom: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120px;\">&#21325;<\/span> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2007\/10\/cross_potent.png\" alt=\"a cross potent, which looks like a plus sign with perpendicular stems on the end of each of the four lines, but not so long as to make a cross in a square; image copied from Wikipedia\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em>Sino-Platonic Papers<\/em> has rereleased another issue related to the history of writing:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp026_silk_road_writing.pdf\">Questions on the Origins of Writing Raised by the Silk Road<\/a> (1.0 MB PDF), by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jao_Tsung-I\">Jao Tsung-i<\/a> (<span class=\"py\">R&#225;o Z&#333;ngy&#237;<\/span>, &#39250;&#23447;&#38948;) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. <\/p>\n<p>This work focuses especially on the use of two symbols, shown at right, in China and elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p>This is issue no. 26 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/\"><em>Sino-Platonic Papers<\/em><\/a>. It was first published in September 1991. <\/p>\n<p>additional reading: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jaotsungi.com\/\">Jao Tsung-i<\/a>, a Web site in Mandarin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jao_Tsung-I\">Jao Tsung-i<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#21325; Sino-Platonic Papers has rereleased another issue related to the history of writing: Questions on the Origins of Writing Raised by the Silk Road (1.0 MB PDF), by Jao Tsung-i (R&#225;o Z&#333;ngy&#237;, &#39250;&#23447;&#38948;) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/questions-on-the-origin-of-writing-spp-26\/\">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":[4,15,28,135,128,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese-characters","category-languages","category-oracle-bones","category-sino-platonic-papers","category-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8011,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/8011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}