Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script
A Vernacular Writing System from Southern China
Biographical note
David Holm, D.Phil. (1980) in Chinese, University of Oxford, is Professor in the Department of Ethnology at National Chengchi University. He has published extensively on the traditional language and culture of the Zhuang, a Tai-speaking people indigenous to Southern China.
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All those interested in writing systems, Chinese characters, anthropological linguistics, comparative Tai, Chinese historical linguistics, literate and oral cultures, and the cultural history of southern China and northern mainland Southeast Asia.
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