Chinese Writing: A Bibliography
Prepared by Kuan-yun Huang
(Last updated: 2015.09.23)
General works
Campbell, Lyle. Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. 3rd edition; Cambridge: MIT
Press, 2013.
Hock, Hans Henrich. Principles of Historical Linguistics. 2nd edition; Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter, 1991.
Norman, Jerry. Chinese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Chinese writing
Boodberg, Peter A. “Some Proleptical Remarks on the Evolution of Archaic Chinese,”
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 1 (1936): 329-72.
---------. “‘Ideography’ or Iconolatry?” T’oung Pao 35.4 (1940): 266-88.
---------. “The Chinese Script: An Essay in Nomenclature (The First Hecaton),”
Zhongyang yanjiu yuan lishi yuyan yanjiu suo jikan 中央研究院歷史語言研究所集刊
29 (1957): 113-20.
---------. “Ancient and Archaic Chinese in the Grammatonomic Perspective.” In
Søren Egerod and Else Glahn, eds., Studia Serica Bernhard Karlgren Dedicata.
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1959, pp. 212-22.
Boltz, William G. “Early Chinese Writing,” World Archaeology 17.3 (1986): 420-36.
---------. “The Typological Analysis of the Chinese Script,” Sino-Platonic Papers 14
(1989): 1-9.
---------. “Early Chinese Writing.” In Peter T. Daniels and Willaim Bright, eds., The
World’s Writing Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 190-9.
---------. “The Invention of Writing in China,” Oriens Extremus 42 (2000-01): 1-17.
---------. The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System. 2nd edition;
New Haven: American Oriental Society, 2003.
Handel, Zev J. “Towards a Comparative Study of Sinographic Writing Strategies in
Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese,” Scripta 1 (2009): 89-125.
Smith, Adam. “Are Writing Systems Intelligently Designed?” In Joshua Englehardt, ed.,
Early Writing and Agency in Archaelogy. Boulder: University Press of Colorado,
forthcoming.
Wujing yiyi
Chen, Shouqi 陳壽祺. Wujing yiyi shuzheng 五經異義疏證. 1813 woodblock edition;
reprinted in Shanghai: Shanghai guji, 1995.
Pi, Xirui 皮錫瑞. Bo Wujing yiyi shuzheng 駁五經異義疏證. 1934 woodblock edition;
reprinted in Shanghai: Shanghai guji, 1995.
Li, Xueqin 李學勤. “Jingu xue kao yu Wujing yiyi”《今古學考》與《五經異義》. In
Li, Gu wenxian lungao 古文獻論稿. Shanghai: Shanghai yuandong, 1996, pp. 318-28.
Miller, Roy Andrew. “The Wu-ching-i-i of Hsü Shen,” Monumenta Serica 33 (1977-78):
1-21.
Shuowen jiezi
Coblin, W. South. “The Initials of Xu Shen’s Language as Reflected in the Shuowen
duruo glosses,” Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6 (1978): 27-75.
---------. “The Finals of Xu Shen’s Language as Reflected in the Shuowen duruo
Glosses,” Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7 (1979): 181-245.
Cook, Richard Sterling. Digital Recension of the Eastern Han Chinese Grammaticon.
Berkeley: Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Project, 2009.
Ding, Fubao 丁福保, ed. Shuowen jiezi gulin 說文解字詁林. 1928-32; reprinted in
Taibei: Shangwu, 1970.
Dong, Lianchi 董蓮池. Shuowen jiezi kaozheng 說文解字考正. Beijing: Zuojia, 2005.
---------, ed. Shuowen jiezi yanjiu wenxian jicheng 說文解字研究文獻集成. Beijing:
Zuojia, 2006-07.
Duan, Yucai 段玉裁. Shuowen jiezi zhu 說文解字注. 1815 woodblock edition;
Shanghai: Shanghai guji, 1981.
Gui, Fu 桂馥. Shuowen jiezi yizheng 說文解字義證. 1864 woodblock edition; Beijing:
Zhonghua, 1987.
Huang, Kan 黃侃. Shuowen jianshi 說文箋釋. Beijing: Zhonghua, 2006.
---------. “Shuowen jiezi xu jiangyi” 說文解字序講義. In idem, Huang Kan guoxue
jiangyi lu 黃侃國學講義錄. Beijing: Zhonghua, 2006, pp. 1-37.
---------. “Shuowen lueshuo” 說文略說. In idem, Huang Kan guoxue lunji 黃侃國學論
集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 2006, pp. 1-53.
Huang, Tianshu 黃天樹. “Shuowen chongwen yu zhengzhuan guanxi bulun”《說文》
重文與正篆關係補論. In idem, Huang Tianshu guwenzi lunji 黃天樹古文字論集.
Beijing: Xueyuan, 2006, pp. 312-23.
---------. “Shuowen jiezi bushou yu jiagu wen”《說文解字》部首與甲骨文. In idem,
Huang Tianshu guwenzi lunji 黃天樹古文字論集. Beijing: Xueyuan, 2006, pp. 324-67.
---------. Shuowen jiezi tonglun 說文解字通論. Beijing: Beijing daxue, 2014.
Hulsewe, A. F. P. “The Shuo wen Dictionary as a Source for Ancient Chinese Law.” In
Søren Egerod and Else Glahn, eds., Studia Serica Bernhard Karlgren dedicata.
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1959, pp. 239-58.
Guo, Zaiyi 郭在貽. “Shuowen Duan zhu yu Hanyu cihui yanjiu”《說文段注》與漢語
詞彙研究. In idem, Guo Zaiyi wenji 郭在貽文集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 2002, vol. 1, pp.
297-327.
----------. “Shuowen Duan zhu yu Han wenzi xue yanjiu”《說文段注》與漢文字學研究.
In idem, Guo Zaiyi wenji 郭在貽文集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 2002, vol. 1, pp. 327-37.
----------. “Shuowen Duan zhu dui Shuowen xue de gongxian”《說文段注》對說文學的
貢獻. In idem, Guo Zaiyi wenji 郭在貽文集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 2002, vol. 1, pp. 33852.
----------. “Cong Shuowen Duan zhu kan Zhongguo chuantong yuyan xue de yanjiu
fangfa” 從《說文段注》看中國傳統語言學的研究方法. In idem, Guo Zaiyi wenji 郭
在貽文集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 2002, vol. 1, pp. 353-75.
----------. “Shuowen Duan zhu zhi queshi”《說文段注》之闕失. In idem, Guo Zaiyi
wenji 郭在貽文集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 2002, vol. 1, pp. 376-403.
Ji, Xusheng 季旭昇. Shuowen xinzheng 說文新證. 2nd edition; Fuzhou: Fujian renmin,
2010.
Li, Jiahao 李家浩. “Tang xieben Shuowen jiezi mubu canjuan wei Li Yangbing kanding
ben kao” 唐寫本《說文解字》木部殘卷為李陽冰刊定本考, Wenshi 文史 62 (2003):
209-15.
Li, Xueqin 李學勤. “Shuowen qianxu cheng jing shuo”《說文》前敘稱經說. In Li, Gu
wenxian lungao 古文獻論稿. Shanghai: Shanghai yuandong, 1996, pp. 278-84.
---------. “Shishuo Zhangjiashan jian ‘Shilü” 試說張家山簡《史律》. In idem,
Zhongguo gudai wenming yanjiu 中國古代文明研究. Shanghai: Huadong shifan daxue,
2005, pp. 242-46.
Li, Zongkun 李宗琨. “Li Yangbing zhuanxue tanyuan” 李陽冰篆學探源, Zhongyang
yanjiuyuan lishi yuyan yanjiu suo jikan 中央研究院歷史語言研究所集刊 73.4 (2002):
827-55.
Lin, Suqing 林素清. “Shuowen gu zhouwen chongtan—jianlun Wang Guowei Zhanguo
shi Qin yong zhouwen liuguo yong guwen shuo”《說文》古籀文重探──兼論王國維戰
國時秦用籀文六國用古文說, Zhongyang yanjiuyuan lishi yuyan yanjiu suo jikan 中央
研究院歷史語言研究所集刊 58.1 (1988): 209-52.
Lu, Zhiwei 陸志韋. “Shuowen jiezi duruo yinding” 說文解字讀若音訂. In idem, Lu
Zhiwei yuyan xue zhuzuo ji 陸志韋語言學著作集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 1985-99, vol. 2,
pp. 231-362.
Ma, Zonghuo 馬宗霍. Shuowen jiezi yin qunshu kao 說文解字引群書攷. Beijing:
Kexue, 1958.
---------. Shuowen jiezi yin jing kao 說文解字引經攷. Beijing: Kexue, 1958.
---------. Shuowen jiezi yin fangyan kao 說文解字引方言攷. Beijing: Kexue, 1959.
---------. Shuowen jiezi yin tongren shuo kao 說文解字引通人說攷. Beijing: Kexue,
1959.
Miller, Roy Andrew. “Problems in the Study of Shuo-wen chieh-tzu.” Ph.D. dissertation,
Columbia University, 1953.
Mo, Youzhi 莫友芝. Tang xieben Shuowen jiezi mubu jianyi 唐寫本說文解字木部箋異.
1883 woodblock edition; reprinted in Beijing: Zhonghua, 1985.
Qiu, Xigui 裘錫圭. “Shuowen jiezi yu chutu gu wenzi”《說文解字》與出土古文字,
Shuowen jiezi yanjiu 說文解字研究 1 (1991): 64-70, 86.
Serruys, Paul L-M. “A Study of the chuan chu in Shuo wen,” Zhongyang yanjiu yuan
lishi yuyan yanjiu suo jikan 中央研究院歷史語言研究所集刊 29 (1957): 131-95.
---------. “On the System of the Pu Shou in the Shuo wen chieh tzu,” Zhongyang yanjiu
yuan lishi yuyan yanjiu suo jikan 中央研究院歷史語言研究所集刊 55.4 (1984): 651754.
Shuowen jiezi 說文解字. 1873 woodblock edition; Beijing: Zhonghua, 2001.
Thern, K. L. Postface of the Shuo-wen Chieh-tzu: The First Comprehensive Chinese
Dictionary. Madison: The Department of East Asian Languages and Literature,
University of Wisconsin, 1966.
Tian, Jian 田潛. Yiqie jing yinyi yin Shuowen jian 一切經音義引說文箋. 1924
woodblock edition; reprinted in Beijing: Zuojia, 2007.
Uchiyama, Naoki 内山直樹. “Handai suo jian xuwen tili de yanjiu—yi Shuowen jiezi xu
“xu yue” wei zhongxin” 漢代所見序文體例的研究──以《說文解字．序》「序曰」
為中心. In Cao Feng 曹峰, ed., Riben xuezhe lun Zhongguo zhexue shi 日本學者論中國
哲學史. Shanghai: Huadong shifan daxue, 2010, pp. 277-89.
Wang, Yun 王筠. Shuowen shili 說文釋例. 1850 woodblock edition; Beijing: Zhonghua,
1987.
---------. Shuowen jiezi judou 說文解字句讀. 1850 woodblock edition; Beijing:
Zhonghua, 1988.
Xu, Kai 徐鍇. Shuowen jiezi xizhuan 說文解字繫傳. 1839 woodblock edition; Beijing:
Zhonghua, 1987.
Yuanben yupian canjuan 原本玉篇殘卷. Beijing: Zhonghua, 1985.
Zhang, Zhenglang 張政烺. “‘Shuowen jiezi xu’ yin ‘Weilü’ jie”《說文解字序》引《尉
律》解. In idem, Zhang Zhenglang wenshi lunji 張政烺文史論集. Beijing: Zhonghua,
2004, pp. 208-14.
---------. “Liushu guyi” 六書古義. In idem, Zhang Zhenglang wenshi lunji 張政烺文史
論集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 2004, pp. 215-37.
Zhou, Zumo 周祖謨. “Xu Shen ji qi Shuowen jiezi” 許慎及其《說文解字》. In idem,
Wenxue ji 問學集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 1966, pp. 710-22.
---------. “Tangben Shuowen yu Shuowen jiuyin” 唐本《說文》與《說文》舊音. In
idem, Wenxue ji 問學集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 1966, pp. 723-59.
---------. “Shuowen jiezi zhi Song keben”《說文解字》之宋刻本. In idem, Wenxue ji
問學集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 1966, pp. 760-800.
---------. “Li Yangbing zhuanshu kao” 李陽冰篆書考. In idem, Wenxue ji 問學集.
Beijing: Zhonghua, 1966, pp. 801-42.
---------. “Xu Kai de Shuowen xue” 徐鍇的《說文》學. In idem, Wenxue ji 問學集.
Beijing: Zhonghua, 1966, pp. 843-51.
---------. “Lun Duan shi Shuowen jiezi zhu” 論段氏《說文解字注》. In idem, Wenxue
ji 問學集. Beijing: Zhonghua, 1966, pp. 852-84.
---------. “Ba Ding Shaoshan fuke Song jianben Shuowen jiezi” 跋丁少山覆刻宋監本
《說文解字》. In idem, Zhou Zumo yuyan xue lunwen ji 周祖謨語言學論文集.
Beijing: Shangwu, 2001, pp. 440-42.
Zhu, Junsheng 朱駿聲. Shuowen tongxun dingsheng 說文通訓定聲. 1851 woodblock
edition; Taibei: Yiwen, 1975.
Zhuanli wanxiang mingyi 篆隸萬象名義. 1114 handwritten edition; Beijing: Zhonghua,
1995.
Modern reforms
DeFrancis, John. The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy. Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press, 1984.
Yin, Binyong, and John S. Rohsenow. Modern Chinese Characters. Beijing: Sinolingua,
1994.
Writing of dialects and other languages
Cheung Kwan-Hin (Zhang Quanxian 張群顯), and Robert S. Bauer. The Representation
of Cantonese with Chinese Characters. Berkeley: Project on Linguistic Analysis,
University of California, 2002.
Erbaugh, Mary S., ed. Difficult Characters: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and
Japanese Writing. Columbus: National East Asian Language Resource Center, Ohio
State University, 2002.
Klöter, Henning. Written Taiwanese. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005.
Snow, Donald B. Cantonese as Written Language: The growth of a Written Chinese
Vernacular. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.
Nüshu
Zhao, Liming 趙麗明, ed. Zhongguo nüshu heji 中國女書合集. Beijing: Zhonghua,
2004.
Chen, Qiguang 陳其光, ed. Nü Han zidian 女漢字典. Beijing: Zhongyang minzu daxue,
2006.
Zhou, Shuoyi 周碩沂, ed. Nüshu zidian 女書字典. Changsha: Yuelu, 2002.
Xie, Zhimin 謝志民, and Xie Xie 謝燮, eds. Zhongguo nüzi zidian 中國女字字典.
Beijing: Minzu, 2009.
Endō, Orie 遠藤織枝. Chūgoku onnamoji kenkyū 中国女文字研究. Tōkyō: Meiji Shoin,
2002.
Chiang, William W. “We Know the Script: We Have Been Good Friends”: Linguistic
and Social Analysis of the Women’s Script Literacy in Southern Hunan, China. Lanhan:
University Press of America, 1995.
Silber, Cathy. “From Daughter to Daughter-in-law in the Women’s Script of Southern
Hunan.” In Christina K. Gilmartin, et al., eds., Engendering China: Women, Culture and
the State. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994, pp. 47-68.
Liu, Fei-wen 劉斐玟. “Narrative, Genre, and Contextuality: The Nüshu-transcribed
Liang-Zhu Ballad in Rural South China,” Asian Ethnology 69.2 (2010): 241-64.
---------. “Kaixian Geertz de shenmiao chanwei: Nüshu wenben de xushuo, yuedu yu
zhanyan” 開顯 Geertz 的深描闡微：女書文本的敘說、閱讀與展演, Taiwan renlei
xuekan 臺灣人類學刊 5.1 (2007): 63-107.
---------. “Wenben yu wenjing de duihua: Nüshu Sanzhao shu yu funü de qingyi
yinsheng” 文本與文境的對話：女書三朝書與婦女的情意音聲, Taiwan renlei xuekan
臺灣人類學刊 3.1 (2005): 87-142.
---------. “From Being to Becoming: Nüshu and Sentiments in a Chinese Rural
Community,” American Ethnologist 31.3 (2004): 422-39.
---------. “Literacy, Gender, and Class: Nüshu and Sisterhood Communities in Southern
Rural Hunan,” Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China 6.2
(2004): 241-82.
---------. “The Confrontation between Fidelity and Fertility: Nüshu, Nüge and Peasant
Women's Conceptions of Widowhood in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, China,”
Journal of Asian Studies 60.4 (2004): 1051-84.
----------. “Shuxie yu geyong de jiaozhi: Nüshu yu Hunan Jiangyong funü de
shuangchong shiwei” 書寫與歌詠的交織：女書與湖南江永婦女的雙重視維, Taiwan
renlei xuekan 臺灣人類學刊 1.1 (2003): 1-49.
----------. “Cong ‘yi qing wei yi’ dao ‘yi you jing zhuan’: Jiangyong Nüshu yu ‘su
keliang” 從「以情為意」到「意由境轉」：江永女書與「訴可憐」. In Yu Anbang
余安邦, ed., Qing, yu yu wenhua 情、欲與文化. Taibei: Zhongyang yanjiu yuan Minzu
xue yanjiu suo, 2003, pp. 225-88.
McLaren, Anne. “Women’s Voices and Textuality: Chastity and Abduction in Chinese
Nüshu Writing.” Modern China 22.4 (1996): 382-416.
McLaren, Anne, and Shibuya Iwane. Review of Endo Orie, Chūgoku no onnamoji,
Intersections 2 (1999), http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue2/endoreview.html .
Cognitive science and other approaches
Li, Ping, eds. Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
Wang, Jian, and Albrecht Inhoff, Hsuan-Chih Chen, eds. Reading Chinese Script: A
Cognitive Analysis. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.
You, Shunzhao 游順釗 (Yau Shun-chiu). “Temporal Order in the Composition of
Archaic Chinese Ideograms,” Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11.2 (1983): 187-213.
---------. “A Cognitive Approach to the Genesis of Nominal Classifiers as Observed in
Archaic Chinese,” Journal of Chinese Linguistics 16.2 (1988): 361-5.
---------. “Liuge gu Hanzi beihou de chuantong shoushi” 六個古漢字背後的傳統手勢.
In idem, Shijue yuyan xue 視覺語言學. Translated by Xu Zhimin 徐志民. Taibei: Daan,
1991, pp. 335-59.
Origin of Chinese writing
Gao, Ming 高明. “Lun taofu jian tan Hanzi de qiyuan” 論陶符兼談漢字的起源. In
idem, Gaoming lunzhu xueji 高明論著選集. Beijing: Kexue, 2001, pp. 1-17.
----------. “Luetan gudai taoqi fuhao, taoqi tuxiang he taoqi wenzi” 略談古代陶器符
號、陶器圖像和陶器文字. In idem, Gaoming lunzhu xueji 高明論著選集. Beijing:
Kexue, 2001, pp. 229-42.
Wang, Ningsheng 汪寧生. “Cong yuanshi jishi dao wenzi faming” 從原始記事到文字
發明. In idem, Wang Ningsheng lunzhu cuibian 汪寧生論著粹編. Yunan: Kunming,
2001, pp. 37-77.
Writing in general
Baines, John, and John Bennet, Stephen Houston, eds. The Disappearance of Writing
Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication. London: Equinox, 2008.
Bazerman, Charles, ed. The Handbook of Research on Writing: History, Society, School,
Individual, Text. London: Routledge, 2007.
Coulmas, Florian. The Writing Systems of the World. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
---------, and Konrad Ehlich, Gabriele Graefen, eds. A Bibliography on Writing and
Written Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.
---------, ed. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, 1996.
---------. Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Daniels, Peter T., and William Bright, eds. The World’s Writing Systems. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1996.
Gelb, Ignace J. A Study of Writing. 2nd edition; Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1963.
Harris, Roy. Rethinking Writing. London: Continuum, 2001.
Houston, Stephen D., ed. The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Joshi, R. Malatesha, and P.G. Aaron, eds. Handbook of Orthography and Literacy.
Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
Olson, David R., and Michael Cole, eds. Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of
Society: Implications of the Work of Jack Goody. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.
Olson, David R., and Nancy Torrance. The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Sanders, Seth L., ed. Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures. Chicago: Oriental
Institute, University of Chicago, 2006.
Sampson, Geoffrey. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1985.
Senner, Wayne M., ed. The Origins of Writing. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1989.
Woods, Christopher, ed. Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle
East and Beyond. Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 2006.