William G Boltz
Biographic Data
| ID | 556040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William G Boltz |
| GIVEN NAMES | William G |
| FAMILY NAME | Boltz |
| SIGNATURE | BOLTZ W G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Mohist Canon and Alternative Origins of Theoretical Science
Proceeding from the theoretical considerations presented in Chap. 1 , the chapter provides an overall interpretation of the scientific sections of the Mohist Canon , which are presented in Chap. 3 . We start with a discussion of the theoretical character of the text as it ensues from textual structures. We then discuss the ways the text reflects on different domains of pre-scientific knowledge pertaining to concepts such as spatial and corporeal …
Text and Translation
The chapter presents text, translation and commentary for the 68 sections of the Mohist Canon on which our analysis in the preceding chapter is based. The topics of the sections range from epistemological foundations via the consideration of logical, set-related and spatio-temporal conditions of knowing to themes in optics and mechanics.
Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon
A new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the Mohist Canon, a Chinese text from ca. 300 BC. This is an open access book.
Sémantisme et classification dans l'écriture chinoise: Les systèmes de classement des caractères par clés du Shuowen jiezi au Kangxi zidian
Logic, Language, and Grammar in Early China
In examining what he calls the logical features and logical concepts of the Classical Chinese language Christoph Harbsmeier has shown in this volume of Science and Civilisation in China that logic is logic and that, like mathematics, physics, and chemistry, for example, logic in China is no different from logic in the West in its primary, fundamental nature. Whatever differences there may appear to be are secondary matters of how logical proposit…
Language and Writing
No one needs to be persuaded that language plays a fundamental part in any society’s everyday activities and constitutes one of the most durable fibers in the tapestry of human history. Indeed, language is a defining feature of our species. The present chapter describes the structure, history, and setting of the Chinese language, as well as the first appearance and subsequent development of its script, over the millennium from 1200 B.C., the time…
The Fourth-Century B. C. Guodiann Manuscripts from Chuu and the Composition of the Laotzyy
The Guodiann manuscripts consist of seven hundred thirty bamboo strips with legibly written texts found in a tomb near the ancient capital of Chuu, in modern Hwubeei province. They date from about 300 B.C. and include thirteen different texts, as identified by modern Chinese scholars. The content includes about forty percent of the received text of the Laotzyy spread over three separate manuscripts. The shortest of these also includes two heretof…
The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System
Notes on the Authenticity of the so Tan Manuscript of the LAO-TZU
Among the numerous extant manuscripts of the Lao-tzu, Tao te ching perhaps the best known, apart from the famous Ma wang tui manuscripts discovered in Hunan province in 1973 and the Hsiang erh chu manuscript from Tun Huang (important primarily for its commentary), is the long fragment known as the So Tan manuscript, currently in the private collection of Mr. John B. Elliott and through his generosity on extended loan to the University Art Museum …
Textual Criticism More Sinico
Textual transmission is viewed in the West typically as a destructive process that results in ever greater corruption and error in a text, and the enterprise of textual criticism in correspondingly seen as the task of restoring the damaged text to a form as close to its original as possible. In China such a negative view of the process of textual transmission does not normally obtain, and textual criticism therefore does not carry the image of be…
The origin and early development of the Chinese writing system
Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asian Languages
This volume owes its genesis to a series of lectures on various aspects of the historical phonology of Asian languages, sponsored by the Asian Linguistics Colloquium of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington, in Seattle. The volume includes papers on both theoretical and applied aspects of Asian linguistics, and topics examined include vowel harmony, dialect variation and “inherent variability”, historica…
Three Footnotes on the Ting 鼎 'Tripod
Notes on the textual relation between the Kuo yü and the Tso chuan
It is well known that a large number of the accounts in the Kuo yü have matching counterparts in the Tso chuan . By my count there are at least 73 Kuo yü accounts with Tso chuan parallels; this out of a total of 241 separate Kuo yü accounts altogether. This means that by percentage of accounts (vs. percentage of text) 30% of the Kuo yü bears some textual relation to the Tso chuan , a proportion surely large enough to justify looking into the ques…
The Etymology of the Old Chinese Numeral 'Two: Grammatical and Semantic Considerations
The two words, _ erh < *jnpjs 'two' and {k tz'u < *cnhais 'next, subsequent', the former said by the Shuo wen to be ph. in the latter, are probably cognate with each other, and both belong to a word family that can be defined semantically as a\/ NIGH NEAR NEXT. Representatives of the NIGH sense include: *k /I *jia?, -*jnak, iffi*jnag, J)*jn2, and m *jnial2, all meaning 'you' or 'your'. Cf. Eng. neighbor < nigh-. Representatives of the NEAR sense …
Northern Frontier: The Policies and Strategy of the Later Han Empire
Siegel und Siegelschrift der Chou-, Ch'in- und Han - Dynastie
Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China. Volume I: Chapters I, 1-XI,34 and XX,64-XXI,65-66
Early Chinese writing
The earliest known form of Chinese writing are the so‐called 'oracle bone inscriptions' of the late Shang, divinatory inscriptions incised on turtle plastrons and ox scapulae, dating from about 1200–1050 B.C. Shang bTonze inscriptions from about 1100 B.C. constitute the second earliest source of evidence for archaic Chinese writing. The script of both kinds of Shang inscription, excluding the anomalous clan name emblems, can be seen to be a fully…
Evocations of the Moon, Excitations of the Sea
William G. Boltz, Evocations of the Moon, Excitations of the Sea, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 106, No. 1, Sinological Studies Dedicated to Edward H. Schafer (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 23-32
The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy
Desultory Notes on Language and Semantics in Ancient China
Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching
The Origins of Chinese Civilization
Textual Criticism and The Ma Wang tui Lao tzu
Early Chinese writing
The earliest known form of Chinese writing are the so‐called 'oracle bone inscriptions' of the late Shang, divinatory inscriptions incised on turtle plastrons and ox scapulae, dating from about 1200–1050 B.C. Shang bTonze inscriptions from about 1100 B.C. constitute the second earliest source of evidence for archaic Chinese writing. The script of both kinds of Shang inscription, excluding the anomalous clan name emblems, can be seen to be a fully…
Textual Criticism and The Ma Wang tui Lao tzu
The religious and philosophical signicance of the 'Hsiang erh'Lao tzuin the light of theMa-wang-tuisilk manuscripts
Among the many texts and manuscripts that Sir Aurel Stein brought to London from the Grottoes of the Thousand Buddhas at Tun-huang early in this century was a text of the first half of theLao tzu(chapters 1-37 of the standard, received version of the text) with a commentary known as theHsiang erh chu(Stein MS 6825 in the British Museum). This document has attracted considerable scholarly interest because of its ostensible connexion with the origi…
The Fourth-Century B. C. Guodiann Manuscripts from Chuu and the Composition of the Laotzyy
The Guodiann manuscripts consist of seven hundred thirty bamboo strips with legibly written texts found in a tomb near the ancient capital of Chuu, in modern Hwubeei province. They date from about 300 B.C. and include thirteen different texts, as identified by modern Chinese scholars. The content includes about forty percent of the received text of the Laotzyy spread over three separate manuscripts. The shortest of these also includes two heretof…
The origin and early development of the Chinese writing system
The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy
Desultory Notes on Language and Semantics in Ancient China
Etymological Dictionaries, a Tentative Typology
Hsin-Lun (New Treatise) And Other Writings by Huan T' an 43 B. C.-28 A. D
Notes on Dating the Cantonese Dentilabialization of Middle Chinese Gutturals
The Graphic Transcription of Literary Chinese Characters
Some Philological Notes to Sources of Shang History. K. Takashima. Department of Asian Studies University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1W5
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Philological Footnotes to the Han New Year Rites
Affixes in Proto-Chinese
A Translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and Wang Pi's Commentary
The structure and interpretation of Chuang tzŭ: Two notes on Hsiao yao yu
It is a commonplace in the study of pre-Han texts to acknowledge that the received version of a given text cannot be assumed to reflect with any significant degree of fidelity its original form. A text is, as the literal sense of the English word implies, something woven, something stitched together (cf. Skt. sūtra , Ch. ching ), and once woven, it may ravel. It would then be subject to re-weaving, either in its entirety alone, or together with o…
Cicada Sinica Quotidiana, the Vocabulary of Common and Classical Chinese
Sources of Shang History: The Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China
Kung Kung and the Flood: Reverse Euhemerism in the Yao Tien
The religious and philosophical signicance of the 'Hsiang erh'Lao tzuin the light of theMa-wang-tuisilk manuscripts
Among the many texts and manuscripts that Sir Aurel Stein brought to London from the Grottoes of the Thousand Buddhas at Tun-huang early in this century was a text of the first half of theLao tzu(chapters 1-37 of the standard, received version of the text) with a commentary known as theHsiang erh chu(Stein MS 6825 in the British Museum). This document has attracted considerable scholarly interest because of its ostensible connexion with the origi…
Word and Word History in the Analects: The Exegesis of Lun Yü Ix.1
Textual Criticism and The Ma Wang tui Lao tzu
Desultory Notes on Language and Semantics in Ancient China
Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching
The Origins of Chinese Civilization
Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China. Volume I: Chapters I, 1-XI,34 and XX,64-XXI,65-66
Early Chinese writing
The earliest known form of Chinese writing are the so‐called 'oracle bone inscriptions' of the late Shang, divinatory inscriptions incised on turtle plastrons and ox scapulae, dating from about 1200–1050 B.C. Shang bTonze inscriptions from about 1100 B.C. constitute the second earliest source of evidence for archaic Chinese writing. The script of both kinds of Shang inscription, excluding the anomalous clan name emblems, can be seen to be a fully…
Evocations of the Moon, Excitations of the Sea
William G. Boltz, Evocations of the Moon, Excitations of the Sea, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 106, No. 1, Sinological Studies Dedicated to Edward H. Schafer (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 23-32
The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy
The Etymology of the Old Chinese Numeral 'Two: Grammatical and Semantic Considerations
The two words, _ erh < *jnpjs 'two' and {k tz'u < *cnhais 'next, subsequent', the former said by the Shuo wen to be ph. in the latter, are probably cognate with each other, and both belong to a word family that can be defined semantically as a\/ NIGH NEAR NEXT. Representatives of the NIGH sense include: *k /I *jia?, -*jnak, iffi*jnag, J)*jn2, and m *jnial2, all meaning 'you' or 'your'. Cf. Eng. neighbor < nigh-. Representatives of the NEAR sense …
Northern Frontier: The Policies and Strategy of the Later Han Empire
Siegel und Siegelschrift der Chou-, Ch'in- und Han - Dynastie
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