The Economy of Western Xia: A Study of 11th to 13th Century Tangut Records
In this book a new linguistic analytic approach – called glyphonetics (a compound of glyph and phonetics) – is proposed, and a few of glyphonetical signs or characters – together with other, logographical, ideographical and picto-phonetical (or phono-semantic) characters – are used to re-decipher the early stories about the Chinese civilization that have been so indistinctly or inconsistently described in existing literature that rigorous scholars do not believe they had happened in the real world. The findings presented at this book, which are based on the first-hand, stylistic or glyphonetical, evidence from dozens of Neolithic and Bronze cultures or civilizations in ancient China, are unexpected but reasonable – all of which not only provide a new perspective to explain China’s long-lasting historical puzzles but also are what every student of China needs to know and doesn’t get in the usual text.
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