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Software and Fonts

• Software (BabelPad | BabelMap)
• Fonts (BabelStone Flags | BabelStone Han | BabelStone Han PUA | Tangut Yinchuan)
• Unicode Utilities (What Unicode Character ? | BabelMap Online | Unicode Slide Show)

Today's Date

• Today's Date in Old Mandarin
• Today's Date in Middle Mongolian
• Today's Date in Manchu
• Today's Date in Jurchen
• Today's Date in Khitan Large Script
• Today's Date in Khitan Small Script
• Today's Date in Tangut

Script Pages

• Jurchen
• Khitan
• Manchu
• Mongolian
• Phags-pa
• Tangut
• Tibetan
• Yi (Nuosu)
• Zhang Zhung

China Pages

• Morrison Collection
• Sanguo Yanyi
• Images of Mao Zedong
• Taishō Tripitaka Contents
• Calendar
• Other

Data

• IDS Database for CJK Unified Ideographs
• How many Unicode characters are there ?

Photography

• 72 Views of the Blackwater River

Publications

All publications

• Wei An 魏安. Sānguó Yǎnyì Bǎnběnkǎo 三國演義版本考 [Study of the Editions of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms]. Shanghai: Shanghai Guji Chubanshe, 1996. [ISBN 7-5325-2023-4]
• Andrew C. West (魏安). Catalogue of the Morrison Collection of Chinese Books (馬禮遜藏書書目). London: SOAS, 1998. [ISBN 0-7286-0292-X]
• Gerard Clauson's Skeleton Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Dictionary (Corpus Textuum Tangutorum Volume 1). Evertype, 2016; 2nd ed. 2019. [ISBN 978-1-78201-247-4]. With Editorial notes and an Index by Andrew West.

See also Corpus Textuum Tangutorum series published by Evertype Publishing.

BabelStone Blog

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Recent posts:

• Marble Slips from the Central Capital of the Jin Dynasty [2023-01-22]
• Tangut Discoveries at the Shanzuigou Caves [2020-07-07]
• Fragments of a Tang Document from Karabalgasun [2019-10-01]
• Khitan Fragments from the Tomb of Yelü Pugu [2018-12-08]
• Khitan Fragment from the Liao Mausoleum at Yiwulü Mountain [2018-11-29]
• Rediscovery of a Lost Tangut Manuscript [2018-04-15]
• Jurchen Inscription on the River Arkhara [2018-03-31]

Diary of a Rambling Antiquarian

All blog posts

Selected blog posts:

• Hunting Ogham Stones in Cornwall [2010-08-27]
• Cloud Platform at Juyongguan [2011-08-03]
• Three Beijing Pagodas [2013-12-08]
• Western Xia Tombs [2016-08-22]
• Kharakhoto [2016-08-25]
• Liao Superior Capital and Pagodas [2016-08-27]
• Wansong Laoren Pagoda [2017-09-18]
• Hohhot White Pagoda [2017-09-22]
• Qingzhou White Pagoda and Qingling Mausoleum [2017-09-30]

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