Sino-Platonic Papers
Encyclopedia
Sino-Platonic Papers is a scholarly monographic series
published by the University of Pennsylvania
. The chief focus of the series is on the intercultural relations of China and Central Asia
with other peoples.
Issues 1 (November 1986) through 170 (February 2006) were published in traditional printed format, but beginning with issue 171 (June 2006), Sino-Platonic Papers has been published electronically only. All new issues, and old ones that are no longer in print, are provided free in PDF
format, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License
.
The Warring States
Project, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
, called changing this journal's publication format to open access "an explicit challenge to the gatekeepers whose chief role is to keep the lid on."
Monographic series
Monographic series are scholarly and scientific books released in successive volumes, each of which is structured like a separate book or scholarly monograph.-Semantics:...
published by the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
. The chief focus of the series is on the intercultural relations of China and Central Asia
Central Asia
Central Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...
with other peoples.
Issues 1 (November 1986) through 170 (February 2006) were published in traditional printed format, but beginning with issue 171 (June 2006), Sino-Platonic Papers has been published electronically only. All new issues, and old ones that are no longer in print, are provided free in PDF
Portable Document Format
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format, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License
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The Warring States
Warring States Period
The Warring States Period , also known as the Era of Warring States, or the Warring Kingdoms period, covers the Iron Age period from about 475 BC to the reunification of China under the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC...
Project, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...
, called changing this journal's publication format to open access "an explicit challenge to the gatekeepers whose chief role is to keep the lid on."
Notable contributors
The following examples illustrate the range of topics in Sino-Platonic Papers.- Urs AppUrs AppUrs App is a historian of ideas, religions, and philosophies with a special interest in the history and modes of interaction between East and West.- Biography :...
(191, "William Jones's Ancient Theology"; 200, "Schopenhauer and China") - George CardonaGeorge CardonaGeorge Cardona is an American linguist and Indologist. He is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.His areas of interest include Indo-European studies and Indian grammatical theory, in particular the Nyaya and Mimamsa schools...
(15, "On Attitudes towards Language in Ancient India") - John DeFrancisJohn DeFrancisJohn DeFrancis was an American linguist, sinologist, author of Chinese language textbooks, lexicographer of Chinese dictionaries, and Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa....
(171, "The Prospects for Chinese Writing Reform") - Eric A. HavelockEric A. HavelockEric Alfred Havelock was a British classicist who spent most of his life in Canada and the United States. He was a professor at the University of Toronto and was active in the Canadian socialist movement during the 1930s. In the 1960s and 1970s, he served as chair of the classics departments at...
(5, "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet") - Jao Tsung-I, (26, "Questions on the Origins of Writing Raised by the Silk Road")
- Haun SaussyHaun SaussyCaleb Powell Haun Saussy is the University Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.- Research :Saussy's first book, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic , discussed the tradition of commentary that has grown up around the early Chinese poetry collection Shi jing...
(75, "The Prestige of Writing: Wen2, Letter, Picture, Image, Ideography") - Edward L. ShaughnessyEdward L. ShaughnessyEdward L. Shaughnessy is an expert on early Chinese history and Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Professor at the University of Chicago.Shaughnessy received his B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame and hits M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University...
(11, "Western Cultural Innovations in China, 1200 BC") - John L. SorensonJohn L. SorensonJohn L. Sorenson is an emeritus professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University and the author of An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon as well as many other books and articles on the Book of Mormon and archaeology.Sorenson first did archaeological work in Mesoamerica while...
(195, "A Complex of Ritual and Ideology Shared by Mesoamerica and the Ancient Near East"), - Erik ZürcherErik ZürcherErik Zürcher was a Dutch Sinologist.From 1962-1993, Zürcher was a professor of history of East Asia at the Leiden University. He was also Director of the Sinological Institute, between 1975 and 1990. His Chinese name was Xǔ Lǐhe .- Biography :He studied Sinology, Buddhism, specializing in Chinese...
(71, "Vernacularisms in Medieval Chinese Texts")