Good news for Tangutologists
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Tangutologists and Old Chinese aficionados take note: the whole 2024 Festschrift for M.V. Sofronov, produced on the occasion of his 90th birthday in 2019, is now available via C. Harbsmeier's academia page: https://t.co/hGUhgrgauE pic.twitter.com/zH7zxY0YjG
— Wolfgang Behr (@behrwolf) June 27, 2024
Click on the illustration to embiggen, then follow the arrows to scroll horizontally through the pages of the table of contents.
Many thanks to Wolfgang Behr for calling this publication to our attention via X and to Christoph Harbsmeier for making it readily available on academia.edu.
I personally am particularly delighted to learn of this rich tribute to M. V. Sofronov because it constitutes an affirmation and validation for the hard work of my student, Nikita Kuzmin, who recently earned his Ph.D. in Tangut Studies and who has begun teaching it.
Selected reading
- "Polyglot Manchu emperor" (4/6/23) — especially in the comments
- "Tangut beer" (10/13/18)
- "Tangut workshop at Yale" (2/2/18)
- M. V. Sofronov, "Chinese Philology and the Scripts of Central Asia", Sino-Platonic Papers, 30 (October, 1991), 1-10.
[h.t. Geoff Wade]
Philip Taylor said,
June 29, 2024 @ 8:46 am
<Not a serious comment/question>Is the paucity of comments in this thread due primarily to readers seeing "Tautologists" (as I do) where "Tangutologists" is what is actually written ?</Not a serious comment/question>
Benjamin E. Orsatti said,
July 1, 2024 @ 7:55 am
Well, Philip, it's like they say — good news for Tangutologists is good news for Tangutologists.
Philip Taylor said,
July 1, 2024 @ 8:07 am
[lets the full implications settle in, then chuckles quietly to self several times …]