Palaeography (History of Writing)

This volume contains the papers presented during the Meeting Off the Beaten Track Epigraphy at the Borders, the sixth in a series of international...

From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the...

A collection of 15 classic Chinese folk storiespassed down from generation to generationpresented in both Chinese and English.Welcome to the fascin...

This book provides a comprehensive cross-linguistic account of 98 typologically diverse minority languages in Southern China. A number of important...

The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese, Korean, and Japanese- originated, developed, and are used today. Uniquely, thi...

Few alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe, the alphabet and its invent...

The Victorians and English Dialect tells the story of the Victorians' discovery of English dialect, and of the revaluation of local language that w...

This book is a quick and easy way to learn the second 100 basic Chinese traditional characters.The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese lang...

This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an atte...