Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script

A Vernacular Writing System from Southern China

Bibliographic Data

ID19895336
AuthorsDavid Holm (0000-0001-6658-0245, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages888
Publication date2013-01-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMapping the Old Zhuang Character Script (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004242166
OpenAlexW4254249567
Open LibraryOL29673707M
ISBN9789004242166
LanguageEN
Citations received14

The traditional Zhuang script is a character script based on Chinese, adapted for the purpose of writing the Tai languages of southern China and northern Vietnam. Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm, presents for the first time a systematic overview of such a script, based on a survey of traditional texts in 45 locations among the Zhuang and related peoples in Guangxi, Guizhou, eastern Yunnan, and northern Vietnam. Complete with 133 maps, it looks at patterns of geographic variation in relation to dialect, the domains of former native chieftaincies, the activities of ritual masters and Taoist priests, large-scale migrations, and the transplantation of garrisons of native troops. Internal evidence indicates the script has a history going back well before the Tang

Archaeology · Cartography · Character (mathematics) · China · Chinese characters · Geography · Linguistics · Relation (database) · Scale (ratio) · Variation (astronomy) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Calligraphy, Chinese · Chinese language, writing

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