William G. Boltz

William G. Boltz is a professor of University of Washington and a scholar of manuscript study, philology, and textual criticism, known for his studies of the origin of the Chinese writing system.^[1]

Education and career[]

William G. Goltz attended the University of California, Berkeley and obtained his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Oriental Languages in 1965, 1969, and 1974, respectively. At Berkeley, he studied Chinese language and linguistics from Professor Yuen Ren Chao（赵元任）, Chinese philology from Professor Peter A. Boodberg, Chinese linguistics from Professor Kun Chang, and Romance philology and linguistics from Professor Yakov Malkiel. He became Professor of Classical Chinese at the University of Washington, Seattle since 1981.^[2]

Selected works[]

• Boltz, William G. (1994). The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System. New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society. ISBN 0-940-49018-8

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