Christopher’s Reviews > Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History > Status Update

This chapter on Old Chinese absolutely doesn't fit with the rest of the book. We've got perhaps intermediate level historical discussion for 200 pages followed abruptly by an extremely high level linguistic discussion with almost no explanatory material, and then a return to history for another 300 pages. The chapter would fit if it were written for the audience one can expect to be reading the rest of the book.

Finally finished part I, the chronology section. Next up, topical studies, starting with Old Chinese.