Brill Philology of the Grasslands: Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies: 17 (Languages of Asia, 17)

Product Description Professor György Kara, an outstanding member of academia, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. His students and colleagues commemorate this occasion with papers on a wide range of topics in Altaic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture and languages of the steppe civilizations. About the Author Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky, Ph.D. (1974), Károli University Budapest, is an Associate Professor at that university. A specialist of Chinese bilingual works he published monographs and numerous articles including those on Yiyu (Global Oriental, 2009) and the ""Translation chapter"" of the Lulongsai lüe (Brill, 2016). Christopher P. Atwood, Ph.D. (1964), is Professor in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Pennsylvania. His works include Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades (2002), and Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire (2004). Béla Kempf, Ph.D. (1976), University of Szeged, is a subject librarian of the Oriental Collection, Klebelsberg Library and a specialist in Mongolic historical linguistics.