> On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 06:29 PM, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > What is this about Qing taboo characters? Can someone point me to an
> > explanation (in English)? Thanks.
One source is Charles S. Gardner _Chinese Traditional Historiography_,
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1938, 2n
On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 06:29 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> What is this about Qing taboo characters? Can someone point me to an
> explanation (in English)? Thanks.
>
The whole idea of "taboo" forms stems from the fact that there are certain
ideographs one could not use because, typically, the
Thomas Chan scripsit:
> And to think that U+248E5 could've been avoided if Kangxi was published
> post-Qing, or if a post-Qing "corrected" edition (i.e., taboos removed
> and orig. characters restored) had been used (I have no idea if such a
> thing exists, though).
What is this about Qing taboo
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