SOAS academics awarded £627,806 AHRC grant to complete four year project studying early ...

29 June 2021

Ernest Caldwell, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies and Nathan Hill, Reader in Tibetan and Historical Linguistics, based in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, have been awarded a £627,806 AHRC grant to complete a four year project studying early Chinese phonology.

The project, titled “Han Phonology: When Chinese became Chinese”, will support the creation of two open-access databases, one tracing historical rhyming practices in Han dynasty poetry and rhymed prose and another focused on Han dynasty Chinese transcription of Buddhist sources from South and Central Asia. Additional planned publication outputs from the project include a lexicon of Han Dynasty Chinese and various articles on Han phonology that utilise a variety of historical texts and recently discovered excavated bamboo manuscripts.

For further information, contact:

Ernest Caldwell - ec24@soas.ac.uk