Our Publications

LI David C. S., Reijiro AOYAMA and Tak-sum WONG (Eds). 2022. Brush Conversation in the Sinographic Cosmopolis: Interactional Cross-border Communication using Literary Sinitic in Early Modern East Asia. New York: Routledge, April 2022. doi: 10.4324/9781003048176. Google book
LI David C. S. and Reijiro AOYAMA. 2022. “Senzaimaru’s Maiden Voyage to Shanghai in 1862: Brush Conversation between Japanese Travelers and People They Encountered in Qing China.” In David C. S. LI, Reijiro AOYAMA, Tak-sum WONG (Eds), Brush Conversation in the Sinographic Cosmopolis: Interactional Cross-border Communication using Literary Sinitic in Early Modern East Asia, pp. 111−126. New York: Routledge.
LI David C. S., Reijiro AOYAMA and Tak-sum WONG. 2022. “Writing-mediated cross-border communication face-to-face: From Sinitic brush-talk (漢文筆談) to pen-assisted conversation.” In David C. S. LI, Reijiro AOYAMA, Tak-sum WONG (Eds), Brush Conversation in the Sinographic Cosmopolis: Interactional Cross-border Communication using Literary Sinitic in Early Modern East Asia, pp. 1−45. New York: Routledge.
WONG Tak-sum. 2022. "The Chosŏn Border Defense Council's Drifting Records of Chinese Vessels in Early Modern East Asia: A Quantitative Analysis of Statistically Salient Place Names and Common Nouns in the Pibyŏnsa Tungnok (1667-1880) Conversation Records." China and Asia, Vol. 3, pp. 308−352, February 2022. doi: 10.1163/2589465X-030210. pre-published version
LI David C. S. 2021. "Writing-mediated interaction face-to-face: Sinitic brushtalk (漢文筆談) as an age-old lingua-cultural practice in premodern East Asian cross-border communication." China and Asia, Vol. 2, pp. 193−233, February 2021. doi: 10.1163/2589465X-02020002.
WONG Tak-sum and David C. S. LI. 2021. 〈漢文筆談——一個以紙筆做緘默交談的近古傳意模式〉[Sinitic Brushtalk as a Once Vibrant Mode of Communication: Conducting Silent Conversation Using Brush, Ink, and Paper in Early Modern East Asia]. Lexicographical Studies, Vol. 2021(1), pp. 81−89, January 2021. doi: 10.16134/j.cnki.cn31-1997/g2.2021.01.013. pre-published version
LI David C. S., Reijiro AOYAMA and Tak-sum WONG. 2020. "Silent Conversation through Brushtalk (筆談): The Use of Sinitic as a Scripta Franca in Early Modern East Asia" Global Chinese, Vol. 6(1), pp. 1−24, April 2020. doi: 10.1515/glochi-2019-0027.
WONG Tak-sum. 2019.〈漢文筆談文獻於中日韓越之整理匯編槪況〉[An Overview of the Collocation and Compilation of Sinitic Brushtalk Documents in Sinographic East Asia]. Journal of the Classical Literature Association of Yon Min, Vol. 32, pp.285−319, September 2019.