List of Tangutologists

This list of Tangutologists includes those scholars who have made notable contributions to Tangutology (the study of Tangut people, their culture, religion, history, language and writing system).

Picture	Name	Dates	Nationality	Significant contributions
	Arakawa Shintarō 荒川慎太郎	b. 1971	Japan	"Tangut Rhyme Dictionary" (1997) Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese Dictionary' (2006)
	Stephen Wootton Bushell	1844–1908	UK	"The Hsi Hsia Dynasty of Tangut, their Money and Peculiar Script" (1985–1986) "The Tangut script in the Nan K'ou Pass" (1899)
	Bai Bin 白濱[1]	b. 1936	China	Study of the Sea of Characters (1983) Researches in Tangut History (1989)
	Gerard Clauson[2]	1891–1974	UK	Skeleton Dictionary of the Hsi-Hsia Language (1937–1938, unpublished)
	Gabriel Devéria	1844–1899	France	"L'Écriture du Royaume de Si-Hia ou Tangout" (1898).[3]
	Ruth W. Dunnell	b. 1950	USA	"The 1094 Sino-Tangut Gantong Stupa Stele Inscription of Wuwei" (1988) The Great State of White and High: Buddhism and State Formation in Eleventh-Century Xia (1996)
	Imre Galambos	b. 1967	Hungary	"The Tangut translation of the General's Garden by Zhuge Liang" (2011) Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture (2015)
	Gong Hwang-cherng 龔煌城	1934–2010	Taiwan	"The phonological reconstruction of Tangut through examination of phonological alternations" (1989)
	Eric Grinstead	1921–2008	New Zealand	The Tangut Tripitaka (1971) Analysis of the Tangut Script (1972)
	Han Xiaomang 韓小忙[4]	b. 1963	China	Study of the Sea of Characters (1983) Researches in Tangut History (1989)
	Huang Zhenhua 黃振華[5]	1930–2003	China	Study of the Sea of Characters (1983) Researches in Tangut History (1989)
	Aleksei Ivanovich Ivanov	1878–1937	Russia	"Monuments de l'écriture tangout" (1920)
	Guillaume Jacques	b. 1979	France	"The origin of vowel alternations in the Tangut verb" (2009) "The structure of the Tangut verb" (2011) Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute (2014)
	Ksenia Kepping[6]	1937–2002	Russia	Sea of Characters (1969) Sunzi in Tangut translation (1979) Morphology of the Tangut Language (1985) "Tangut Ritual Language" (1996)
	Vsevolod Sergeevich Kolokolov[7]	1896–1979	Russia	Chinese Classics in Tangut Translation (1966) Sea of Characters (1969)
	Luc Kwanten	b. 1943	Belgium	The Timely Pearl: A 12th Century Tangut-Chinese Glossary (1982) "The Phonological hypothesis of the Hsi Hsia [Tangut] Language," (1984) "Special Research Problems in Hsi Hsia [Tangut] History and Linguistics" (1985) "The Structure of the Tangut [Hsi Hsia] characters" (1989)
	Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov[8]	1932–2013	Russia	Chinese Classics in Tangut Translation (1966) Essay on the History of the Tangut State (1968) Sea of Characters (1969) Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese Dictionary' (2006)
	Li Fanwen 李範文[9]	b. 1932	China	Study of the Homophones (1986) Tangut-Chinese Dictionary (1997, 2008)
	Lin Ying-chin 林英津[10]	b. 1955	Taiwan	Study of the Tangut translation of "Sunzi's Art of War" (1994)
	Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉[11]	1866–1940	China	Collection of Western Xia Official Seals (1927)
	Luo Fucheng 羅福成[12]	1885–1960	China	Study of the Lotus Sutra in Tangut (1914)
	Luo Fuchang 羅福萇[13]	1895–1921	China	Brief Explanation of the Western Xia Script (1914)
	Luo Fuyi 羅福頤[14]	1905–1981	China	Collected Study of Official Seals of the Western Xia (1982)
	Marc Miyake	b. 1971	USA	"Sketch of Pre-Tangut" (2012)
	Georges Morisse	d. 1910	France	"Contribution préliminaire à l'étude de l'écriture et de la langue si-hia" (1904) — study of the Tangut translation of the Saddharma Puṇḍarīka (Lotus Sutra).[15]
	Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky[16]	1892–1937	Russia	"A Brief Manual of the Si-Hia Characters with Tibetan Transcriptions" (1926) Tangut Philology (1960)
	Nie Hongyin 聶鴻音[17]	b. 1954	China	"Study of the phonetic symbols used in the Pearl in the Palm" (1987) "Tangutology During the Past Decades" (1993)
	Nishida Tatsuo 西田龍雄[18]	1928–2012	Japan	Study of the Hsi-Hsia Language (1964) Language and Culture of the Tangut Kingdom (1997)
	Niu Dasheng 牛达生[19]	b. 1933	China	The Western Xia Square Pagoda at Baisigou (2005)
	Shi Jinbo 史金波[20]	b. 1940	China	Study of the Sea of Characters (1983) Brief History of Buddhism in the Western Xia (1988) Study of Western Xia Publishing (2004) A Course in Tangut 西夏文教程 (2013)
	Mikhail Viktorovich Sofronov[21]	b. 1929	Russia	Grammar of the Tangut Language (1968)
	Kirill Solonin[22]	b. 1969	Russia	"Hongzhou Buddhism in Xixia and the Heritage of Zongmi (780–841)" (2003) "The Chan Teaching of Nanyang Huizhong (?-775) in Tangut Translation" (2012) "The "Perfect Teaching" and Liao Sources of Tangut Chan Buddhism: A Study of Jiexing zhaoxin tu" (2013)
	Sun Bojun 孫伯君[23]	b. 1966	China	"Sanskrit-Chinese phonetic transcriptions and the Northwest Chinese dialect in Tangut translations of sūtras" (2007)
	Tai Chung-pui 戴忠沛[24]		China	"Collation of five newly seen Tangut fragments with Tibetan transcription" (2009)
	Anatoly Pavlovich Terentev-Katansky[25]	1934–1998	Russia	Book Publishing in the Tangut State (1981) Sea of Characters (1969)
	Wang Jingru 王静如[26]	1903–1990	China	"Notes on the Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions of the Hsi-hsia (Tangutan) language" (1930) Research on the Western Xia (1933) "Introduction to the Phonetic System of the Tangut Language" (1982)

See also

• List of Khitanologists
• List of sinologists

References

1. "白滨 (Bai Bin)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
2. Grinstead, Eric (1972). Analysis of the Tangut Script. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series no. 10. Studentlitteratur. p. 51. ISBN 91-44-09191-5.
3. van Driem, George (2001). Handbuch Der Orientalistik. Brill. p. 458. ISBN 9789004120624.
4. "韩小忙 (Han Xiaomang)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
5. "黄振华 (Huang Zhenhua)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
6. "Ксения Борисовна Кепинг". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
7. "Всеволод Сергеевич Колоколов". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
8. "Evgeny Ivanovich Kychanov". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
9. "李范文 (Li Fanwen)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
10. "林英津". Institute of Linguistics, Academic Sinica. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
11. "罗振玉 (Luo Zhenyu)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
12. "罗福成 (Luo Fucheng)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
13. "罗福苌 (Luo Fuchang)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
14. "罗福颐 (Luo Fuyi)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
15. van Driem, George (2001). Handbuch Der Orientalistik. Brill. p. 458. ISBN 9789004120624.
16. "Николай Александрович Невский". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
17. "聂鸿音 (Nie Hongyin)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
18. Grinstead, Eric (1972). Analysis of the Tangut Script. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series no. 10. Studentlitteratur. p. 51. ISBN 91-44-09191-5.
19. "牛达生 (Niu Dasheng)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
20. "史金波 (Shi Jinbo)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
21. "Михаил Викторович Софронов". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
22. "Кирилл Юрьевич Солонин (1969-)". Retrieved 2015-09-18.
23. "孙伯君 (Sun Bojun)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
24. "Researchers: Dr. Tai Chung Pui". University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 2014-10-29.
25. "Анатолий Павлович Терентьев-Катанский". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
26. "王静如 (Wang Jingru)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-26.

External links

• Bibliography of Tangut Studies