Research
Interests:
Sinitic etymology;
Sinitic lexicography; Early Vernacular Sinitic; the
Bronze Age and Early Iron Age peoples of Eastern Central
Asia; cultural aspects of Chinese Buddhism; Sino-Indian
and Sino-Iranian cultural interactions; Eurasian cultural
exchange; origins and evolution of the Chinese script;
Chinese language reform.
Selected Publications:
Hawai'i
Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture, co-editor
with Nancy S. Steinhardt and Paul R. Goldin (University
of Hawai'i Press, 2005).
An Alphabetical
Index to the Hanyu Da Cidian, ed. (2003, University
of Hawai'i Press and Hanyu Da Cidian chubanshe).
ABC
Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, assoc.
ed. (2003).
Columbia
History of Chinese Literature, ed. (Columbia University
Press, 2002).
The
Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the
Earliest Peoples from the West, co-author with
J. P. Mallory (Thames and Hudson, 2000).
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