Bibliography of the Chinese language and writing system explained

The Chinese language has an attested history spanning more than three millennia, and linguists have reconstructed forms spoken millennia prior to the earliest known examples of written Chinese . Chinese may be viewed either as a holistic unit with great internal topological variation, or as an entire language family comprising many groupings of varieties. Written Chinese makes use of Chinese characters, one of the four independent inventions of writing agreed by scholars, and the only one of these remaining in use. Speakers and readers exhibit a high degree of diglossia between both local varieties and Standard Chinese, and between written and spoken language. The historically predominant written form of the language is known as Literary Chinese.

Overviews

• Book: The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language . Routledge . 2016 . 978-1-317-38249-2 . Chan . Sin-Wai.
• Book: DeFrancis, John . John DeFrancis . The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy . The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy . University of Hawaiʻi Press . 1984 . 978-0-8248-1068-9 . Honolulu.
• Book: Science and Chinese Society: Language and Logic . Cambridge University Press . 2006 . 978-0-521-57143-2 . Harbsmeier . Christoph . Reprint . Science and civilisation in China . VII:1 . 1998 . Needham . Joseph . Joseph Needham.
• Book: Kane, Daniel A. . Chinese Language: A Survey of Its History and Current Usage . Tuttle . 2006 . 978-0-8048-3853-5 . North Clarendon, VT.
• Book: Kornicki, Peter . Peter Kornicki . Languages, Scripts, and Chinese Texts in East Asia . Oxford University Press . 2018 . 978-0-192-51869-9.
• Book: Norman, Jerry . Jerry Norman (sinologist) . Chinese . Cambridge University Press . 1988 . 978-0-521-29653-3.
• Book: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics Online . Brill . 2015 . Sybesma . Rint . 10.1163/2210-7363-ecll-all . 2210-7363.

Phonology

• Book: Chao, Yuen Ren . Yuen Ren Chao . Mandarin Primer: an Intensive Course in Spoken Chinese . Harvard University Press . 1948 . 978-0-674-73288-9 . Yuen Ren Chao (趙元任) . registration.
• Book: Chao, Yuen Ren . A Grammar of Spoken Chinese . University of California Press . 1968 . 978-0-520-00219-7 . 2nd . 3.
• Book: Duanmu, San . The Phonology of Standard Chinese . Oxford University Press . 2007 . 978-0-19-921579-9 . 2nd . Duanmu San (端木三) . 2000.

Grammar

• Book: Sinitic Grammar: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives . Oxford University Press . 2001 . 978-0-19-829977-6 . Chappell . Hilary.
• Book: Geaney, Jane . The Emergence of Word-meaning in Early China: A Grammatology . State University of New York Press . 2022 . 978-1-4384-8895-0 . Albany.
• Book: Pulleyblank, Edwin G. . Edwin G. Pulleyblank . Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar . University of British Columbia Press . 1995 . 978-0-7748-0541-4 . Vancouver.
• Book: Vogelsang, Kai . Introduction to Classical Chinese . Oxford University Press . 2021 . 978-0-198-83497-7.

Morphosyntax

• Book: Packard, Jerome L. . Jerome Packard . The Morphology of Chinese . Cambridge University Press . 2000 . 978-0-521-77112-2.
• Book: Li, Charles N. . Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar . Thompson . Sandra A. . Sandra Thompson (linguist) . University of California Press . 1981 . 978-0-520-06610-6 . Berkeley.

Historical linguistics

Old Chinese

• Book: Baxter, William H. . William H. Baxter . A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology . Mouton de Gruyter . 1992 . 978-3-11-012324-1 . Berlin.
• Book: Baxter, William H. . William H. Baxter . Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction . Sagart . Laurent . Laurent Sagart . Oxford University Press . 2014 . 978-0-19-994537-5 . 3.

Middle Chinese

• Book: The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic Philosophy and Historical-Comparative Phonology . John Benjamins . 2006 . 978-90-272-4785-8 . Branner . David Prager . Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory . 271 . Amsterdam.
• Book: Pulleyblank, Edwin G. . Edwin G. Pulleyblank . Middle Chinese: A Study in Historical Phonology . University of British Columbia Press . 1984 . 978-0-7748-0192-8 . Vancouver.

Sociolinguistics

• Book: Chao, Yuen Ren . Yuen Ren Chao . Aspects of Chinese Sociolinguistics: Essays . 1976 . Stanford University Press . 978-0-8047-0909-5 . Language science and national development . Yuen Ren Chao.
• Book: Chen, Ping . Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics . Cambridge University Press . 1999 . 978-0-521-64572-0 . 4th . Chen Ping (陳平) . registration.
• Book: DeFrancis, John . John DeFrancis . Nationalism and language reform in China . Octagon . 1972 . 978-0-374-92095-1 . New York . 1950.
• Book: The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919 . Brill . 2008 . 978-90-474-2333-1 . Kaske . Elisabeth . Sinica Leidensia . Leiden.
• Book: Li, Yuming . Language Planning in China . Mouton de Gruyter . 2015 . 978-1-61451-558-6 . Language Policies and Practices in China . Berlin.
• Book: Zhong, Yurou . Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958 . Columbia University Press . 2019 . 978-0-231-54989-9 . 10.7312/zhon19262.

Varieties and dialectology

• Book: Ramsey, S. Robert . The Languages of China . Princeton University Press . 1989 . 978-0-691-01468-5 . 2nd . 1987.
• Book: Tam, Gina Anne . Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960 . Cambridge University Press . 2020 . 978-1-108-77640-0.

Grammatology

• Book: Li, Yu . The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective . Routledge . 2020 . 978-1-138-90731-7.
• Book: Literary Information in China . Columbia University Press . 2021 . 978-0-231-19552-2 . Chen . Jack W. . New York . Detwyler . Anatoly . Liu . Xiao . Nugent . Christopher M. B. . Rusk . Bruce . amp.

Palaeography

• Boltz . William G. . William G. Boltz . 1986 . Early Chinese writing . Taylor & Francis . 17 . 3 . 420–436 . 10.1080/00438243.1986.9979980 . World Archaeology.
• Book: Boltz, William G. . The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System . American Oriental Society . 1994 . 978-0-940490-78-9 . New Haven . 3.
• Book: Boltz, William G. . William G. Boltz . The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC . Cambridge University Press . 1999 . 978-1-139-05370-9 . Loewe . Michael . 74–123 . Language and Writing . 3 . Shaughnessy . Edward L..
• Book: Demattè, Paola . The Origins of Chinese Writing . Oxford University Press . 2022 . 978-0-197-63576-6.
• Book: Keightley, David N. . David Keightley . Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China . University of California Press . 1985 . 978-0-520-02969-9 . Berkeley . . 1978.
• Book: Keightley, David N. . The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space, and Community in Late Shang China (ca. 1200–1045 B.C.) . University of California Press . 2000 . 978-1-55729-070-0 . Berkeley . 3.
• Book: Writing and Literacy in Early China: Studies from the Columbia Early China Seminar . University of Washington Press . 2011 . 978-0-295-99152-8 . Li . Feng . Li Feng (sinologist) . Seattle . Branner . David Prager.
• Book: Qiu, Xigui . Qiu Xigui . Chinese Writing . Society for the Study of Early China and The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California . 2000 . 978-1-55729-071-7 . Berkeley . Mattos . Gilbert L. . Qiu Xigui . 1988 . Norman . Jerry.
• Book: Zhou, Youguang . Zhou Youguang . The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts . National East Asian Languages Resource Center, Ohio State University . 2003 . 978-0-87415-349-1 . Columbus . en,zh . Zhang . Liqing . zh:中国语文的时代演进 . Zhou Youguang . Zhang Liqing (张立青).

Lexicography

• Book: Bökset, Roar . Long Story of Short Forms: The Evolution of Simplified Chinese Characters . Stockholm University . 2006 . 978-91-628-6832-1 . Stockholm East Asian Monographs . 11 . PDF . 2024-03-12.
• Book: Handel, Zev . Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script . Brill . 2019 . 978-90-04-35222-3 . 189494805.
• Book: Lunde, Ken . Ken Lunde . CJKV Information Processing . O'Reilly . 2008 . 978-0-596-51447-1 . 2nd.
• Book: O'Neill, Timothy Michael . Ideography and Chinese Language Theory: A History . De Gruyter . 2016 . 978-3-110-45923-4.
• Book: Yip, Po-ching . The Chinese Lexicon: A Comprehensive Survey . Psychology Press . 2000 . 978-0-415-15174-0.
• Book: Yong, Heming . Chinese Lexicography: A History from 1046 BC to AD 1911 . Peng . Jing . Oxford University Press . 2008 . 978-0-191-56167-2.

Dictionaries

• Book: Xiandai Hanyu Cidian . . 2016 . 978-7-100-12450-8 . Chinese Academy of Social Sciences . Chinese Academy of Social Sciences . 7th . Beijing . zh:现代汉语词典 . Xiandai Hanyu Cidian . 1978 . zh.
• Book: Hanyu Da Zidian . Sichuan cishu chubanshe . 1995 . 978-7-80543-427-8 . Hanyu da zidian weiyuanhui . Corrected . Chengdu . zh:汉语大字典 . Hanyu Da Zidian . 1986–1989 . zh.

References

• Encyclopedia: 2014 . The Chinese Script . Oxford Bibliographies . Oxford University Press . Galambos . Imre . Imre Galambos.