Selection of Han dynasty transcriptions of foreign names and words

This dataset contains the Chinese transcriptions of foreign words and names in Han dynasty sources that appear in the appendix of the following article: Schuessler, Axel (2014). "Phonological Notes on Hàn Period Transcriptions of Foreign Names and Words." Richard VanNess Simmons and Newell Ann Van Auken, eds. Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text, pp. 249- 293. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.This research was funded under the UKRI project 'Han Phonology: When Chinese became Chinese' (AH/V008722/1