A handbook of 'phags-pa Chinese

by W. South Coblin

$80 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001 . First edition, 8vo, pp. 2 , xv, 307, 3 ; full green cloth; fine in fine dust jacket. 'Phags-pa Chinese is the earliest form of the Chinese language to be written in a systematically devised alphabetic script. It is named after its creator, a brilliant thirteenth-century Tibetan scholar-monk who also served as political adviser to Kublai Khan. Item #72091

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