The Dissertation as Handbook

Designed as a vade mecum for Sinological neophytes whose studies require them to extract lexical, epigraphical, or phonological materials from the Shuo-wen chieh-tzu of A.D. 100, Marc Winter's monograph attempts a general introduction to the problems of the text, followed by annotated translations of the lemmata for its 540 graphic-keys. Unfortunately the author's jejune bibliographical command renders the former portion of his book alternately redundant and incomplete, while his unfamiliarity with the salient problems obtaining in Chinese historical linguistics today largely vitiates the latter section, as does also his unsatisfactory philological control of his sources, both ancient and modern

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