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    • Ge Hong and the Making of an Emergency Medicine Formulary 

      Bradley, Sean T
      The Zhouhou beiji fang 肘後備急方 (Emergency formulas to keep on hand) was compiled in the fourth century by the Daoist, alchemist, and scholar, Ge Hong 葛洪 (283–343) under the name Zhouhou jiucu 肘後救卒 ([Formulas for] resuscitation ...
    • Glottal Stop Initials and Nasalization in Sino-Vietnamese and Southern Chinese 

      Lanneau, Grainger Steele
      Middle Chinese glottal stop Ying 影 [ʔ-] initials usually develop into zero initials with rare occasions of nasalization in modern day Sinitic languages and Sino-Vietnamese. Scholars such as Edwin Pullyblank (1984) and Jiang ...
    • The Principles of Hewen 合文 

      Razzak, Kulayb
      When one reads the literature on hewen 合文 (a pre-Han type of ligation formed from two or more Chinese characters) the majority of it will correctly state that these "combined graphs" (as the term literally means) were used ...
    • Wei-Jin Sacrificial Ballets: Reform versus Conservation 

      Jensen, Kevin (2013-02-25)
      This dissertation examines the sixteen extant Wei-Jin sacrificial ballet hymns of Wang Can, Fu Xuan, Xun Xu, and Zhang Hua to discover the impetus for and significance of the changes in sacrificial hymns during the Wei-Jin ...