Personal Names in Early China
A Research Note
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3958708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Rakita Goldin |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/604887 |
| OpenAlex | W2331738289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This paper discusses several illustrative examples of ancient Chinese personal names that appear to impart information about the moral or physical characteristics of the people who bore them. Such epithets are likely to have been posthumous, or may have been acquired in adulthood, but in any case cannot be understood as regular names given at or soon after birth. Moreover, since these suspicious names appear in various kind of texts, including some that pretend to be historical, this phenomenon must affect our assessment of the sources that we use to interpret the ancient Chinese world
Archaeology · China · Chinese history and philosophy · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · History · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |