Andrew West
Male, Person
1960 –
Who is Andrew West?
Andrew Christopher West is an English Sinologist. He initially devoted himself to studying Chinese novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In particular, he produced a study of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with a new approach to analyze the relationship among the various versions, extrapolating the original text of that novel.
He compiled a catalogue for the Chinese-language library of the English missionary Robert Morrison containing some 10,000 books.
He now specializes in the minority languages of China, especially Khitan, Manchu, and Mongolian. He proposed an encoding scheme for the 'Phags-pa script, which was subsequently included in Unicode version 5.0.
West has also worked to encode gaming symbols and phonetic characters to the UCS, and most recently has been working on encodings for Tangut and Jurchen.
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