Andrew West

Andrew West

Born in Tayport on February 5 1991. Grew up to become a messAndrew West (Chinese name 魏安 Wèi Ān, born 1960) is an English linguist. He initially devoted himself to studying Chinese novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In particular, he produced a comprehensive and detailed study of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", with a new approach to analyze the relationship among the various versions, interpolating the original text of that novel.

He now specializes in the minority languages of China, especially Khitan, Manchu, and Mongolian. He proposed an encoding scheme for the Phagspa script in co-operation with other scholars, which was subsequently included in Unicode 5.0. He wrote two Unicode input methods [http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html BabelPad] and [http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html BabelMap] .

He compiled a catalogue for the Chinese-language library of the English missionary Robert Morrison containing some 10 000 books.

Bibliography

*《三國演義版本考》 (A study of the various texts of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms") Shanghai: 上海古籍出版社，1996
*"Catalogue of the Morrison Collection of Chinese Books", London: SOAS, 1998.

External links

* [http://www.babelstone.co.uk/ BabelStone: Andrew West's personal website]
* [http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Morrison/ The Robert Morrison catalogue]


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