Sino Platonic Papers/Journal Online or MEL/SIN/WUH?

[雅各]

Hi,

I greatly enjoyed the article recently discussed in another thread "Why is Chinese so damn hard?", which was originally from the journal "Sino Platonic".

I was wondering whether any more articles from this journal are available for download (PDF?) somewhere online. I've seen it for sale, but that may just be hardcopy.

Personally: I can access libraries in Melbourne (Australia), Wuhan or Singapore, so if it's available at any of these locations I'd also greatly appreciate if someone could let me know which library/university it/they can be accessed at.

Thanks,

雅各

[Taibei]

The Web site of Sino-Platonic Papers has excerpts from most issues. Although at present most of these excerpts are brief, others are quite long.

Among those with lengthy excerpts are:

• Implications of the Soviet Dungan Script for Chinese Language Reform (one of my favorites)
  
• The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the Advocacy of Local Autonomy
  
• The Complete Ci-poems of Li Qingzhao: A New English Translation
  
• Wheeled Vehicles in the Chinese Bronze Age (c. 2000-741 b.c.)
  
• Notes on the Anau Inscription
  
• Influences tokhariennes sur la mythologie chinoise
  

And, of course, the ever-popular Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard.

Eventually, all issues of SPP will be available online. Keep watching the SPP site or Pinyin News for updates on this.

[zhwj]

I'm eagerly awaiting the promised annotated list. I'm interested to see an exceprt, abstract, or even a description of Mair's Conversion Tables for the Three-Volume Edition of the Hanyu Da Cidian - the full text of which costs around 1/3 of the dictionary itself - I might get it if I knew what it was, first.

[Taibei]

Update: more than three-quarters of the 215 wide-ranging issues to date of Sino-Platonic Papers are available in full online (for free).