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Who wrote the chapter on Chinese [in The World's Writing Systems]?

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/?v...

I'm pretty sure it's by William G. Boaltz

http://depts.washington.edu/asianll/people/faculty/boltzwm.h...

whose papers about ancient Chinese are full of surprising details, with insight into how the current writing system developed historically.



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