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Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script

Handbook of Oriental Studies

Handbuch der Orientalistik

SectiOn fOur

china

Edited by

Stephen f. teiser

Martin Kern

timothy Brook

VOLuMe 28

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Mapping the Old Zhuang

Character Script

A Vernacular Writing System

from Southern China

David Holm

LeiDen • BOStOn

2013

Cover illustration:

Pages from a tày mogong manuscript from Bào Lâm district, Cao Bằng province,

northern Vietnam. On the right are the closing lines of a liturgical text in five-syllable verses. On the

left is the post-title ‘Here ends the text for returning to the Bridge-head and escorting the Goddess of

flowers’, followed by taoist-inspired talismans circled in red. Photo by Ling Shudong.

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