A letter writer of / for the 20th and 21st century
Language Log 2025-01-13
Summary:
Xu Wenkan is well known to readers of Language Log, both because he was memorialized in an obituary here — "Xu Wenkan (1943-2023)" (1/10/23) — and because he was cited in many posts on IE languages (especially Tocharian), Sinitic lexicography / lexicology, and the Sinographic writing system. Today he was featured in a Chinese newspaper article, […]