List of Khitanologists

This list of Khitanologists includes those scholars who have made notable contributions to the study of the Khitan people, their culture, religion, history, language and writing systems (Khitan large script and Khitan small script).

PictureNameDatesNationalitySignificant contributions
Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun
ᠠᡳ᠌ᠰᡳᠨ ᡤᡳᠣᡵᠣ ᡠᠯᡥᡳᠴᡠᠨ		 b. 1958 China/Japan Study of Khitan Language and Script (2004)
A Study of Newly Excavated Khitai Materials (2012)
Total Decipherments of Epitaphs in Khitai Large and Small Scripts (2014)
Chinggeltei
ᠴᠢᠩᠭᠡᠯᠲᠡᠢ		 1924–2013 China "A new approach to the deciphering of the Ch'i-tan Small Script" (1978)
Study of the Khitan Small Script (1985)
Problems in the readings of the Khitan Small Script (2002)
Juha Janhunen b. 1952 Finland New Materials on the Khitan Small Script: A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu and Yelü Xiangwen (2010)
Jishi
即实 (pen name of Batu)[1]		 b. 1927 China A New Approach to the Decipherment of Khitan Small Script (1996)
Continuing the Decipherment of Khitan Small Script (2012)
Daniel Kane b. 1948 USA The Kitan Language and Script (2009)
Liu Fengzhu
刘凤翥		 b. 1934 China "A new approach to the deciphering of the Ch'i-tan Small Script" (1978)
Study of the Khitan Small Script (1985)
Collection of Liao dynasty monumental inscriptions from the area of the Liao Upper Capital (2009)
Vladimir Sergeevich Starikov
Влади́мир Серге́евич Ста́риков		 1919–1987 Soviet Union Catalogue of Graphems of the Kitan Script (1966)
Sun Bojun
孫伯君[2]		 b. 1966 China "Study and reading of a stone with a Khitan large script inscription in Khentii Province, Mongolia" (2006)
Wu Yingzhe
吴英喆		 b. 1971 China New Materials on the Khitan Small Script: A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu and Yelü Xiangwen (2010)
Viacheslav Petrovich Zaytsev
Вячесла́в Петро́вич За́йцев[3]		 b. 1976 Russia "A Manuscript Codex in the Khitan Large Script from the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences" (2011)
"Identification of a Khitan historical work as part of the Nova N 176 manuscript codex from the collection of the IOM RAS and related problems" (2015)

See also

References
  1. Kang Peng 康鹏 (9 May 2013). "Short biography of Jishi" 即实微传. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  2. Sun Bojun 孫伯君 (2006). 蒙古國肯特省契丹大字刻石考釋. Shije Minzu 世界民族 (in Chinese) (4): 44–52. ISSN 1006-8287.
  3. "Viacheslav Petrovich Zaytsev". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
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