"A scholarship liked myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril."
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Eric A. Havelock "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet" in Sino-Platonic Papers, 5 (December 1987).
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