Christopher I. Beckwith
Christopher I. Beckwith (né en 1945) est un professeur du département de l'Asie centrale à l'université de l'Indiana à Bloomington.

Il a obtenu son Ph.D. à l'Indiana University sur l'étude des langues ouraliennes et altaïques en 1977.

Il est spécialisé dans l'étude et la linguistique des langues asiatiques et dans l'histoire d'Asie centrale. Il enseigne le tibétain ancien, les langues et l'histoire de l'Eurasie centrale.

Publications 
Beckwith, Christopher I. (1977). A Study of the Early Medieval Chinese, Latin, and Tibetan Historical Sources on Pre-Imperial Tibet.Indiana University PhD Dissertion.
Beckwith (1979), The Introduction of Greek Medicine into Tibet in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries en Anglais. Journal de la société américaine orientale 99.2: 297-313.
Beckwith (1984): "Aspects of the Early History of the Central Asian Guard Corps in Islam".. Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, Vol. 4, 1984, 29-43.
Beckwith, Christopher I (1983). . Ernst Steinkellner and Helmut Tauscher eds. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde; Heft 10. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, pp. 1–16. reprinted in: The History of Tibetan. ed. Alex Mckay. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003: 273-285.
Beckwith (1984): 'The Plan of the City of Peace: Central Asian Iranian Factors in Early ‘Abbâsid  Design.' Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 38: 128-147.
Beckwith (1984): 'Aspects of the Early History of the Central Asian Guard Corps in Islam.' Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi l984, Vol. 4:29-43. (Reprinted in C. Edmund Bosworth, ed., The Turks in the Early Islamic World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007: 275-289.)
Beckwith (1987): The Tibetans in the Ordos and North China:  Considerations on the Role of the Tibetan Empire in World History. In: C.I. Beckwith, ed., Silver on Lapis. Bloomington: Tibet Society, 1987, 3-11.
Beckwith (1991): "". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 34, 1991, 183-198.
Beckwith (1993): The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. . , with a new afterword, 1993. 
Beckwith (1996): "The Morphological Argument for the Existence of Sino-Tibetan". , January 8-10, 1996. vol 3.  : 812-826.
Beckwith (1998): "Noun Specification and Classification in Uzbek."  Anthropological Linguistics 40.1: 124-140.
Beckwith (2002):  Brill Academic Publishers. 
Beckwith (2004): "Old Chinese." Encyclopedia of Linguistics Philipp Strazny, (ed.). New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 771-774.
Beckwith (2005): "On the Chinese Names for Tibet, Tabghatch, and the Turks." Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, 14: 5-20.
Beckwith (2006): . Brill Academic Publishers. 
Beckwith (2006). “” In: . Leiden: Brill, 45-57.
Beckwith (2006). "Methodological Observations on Some Recent Studies of the Early Ethnolinguistic History of Korea and Vicinity." Altai Hakpo 2006, 16: 199-234.
Beckwith (2006). "" Journal of Inner and East Asian Studies, 2006, Vol. 2-2: 34-64.
Beckwith, and Gisaburo N. Kiyose (2006): 'The Silla Word for "Walled City" and the Ancestor of Modern Korean.' Arutaigo Kenkyu - Altaistic Studies 2006, Vol. 1: 1-10.
Beckwith (2007):  Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. . Second edition, 2007. 
Beckwith (2007) "On the Proto-Indo-European Obstruent System." Historische Sprachforschung 2007, 120: 1-19.
Beckwith (2007): Phoronyms: Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 
Beckwith (2007): "The Frankish Name of the King of the Turks." "Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi" 2006/7, 15: 5-11.
Beckwith (2008). "" Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages III. Christopher Beckwith, ed. (Proceedings of the  Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.) Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH: 9-48.
Beckwith (2008). ""  Christopher Beckwith, ed. (Proceedings of the  Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.) Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH: 87-110.
Beckwith (2008). "Old Chinese loans in Tibetan and the non-uniqueness of „Sino-Tibetan“."  Christopher Beckwith, ed. (Proceedings of the  Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.) Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH: 61-201.
Beckwith, and Gisaburo N. Kiyose (2008): 'The Origin of the Old Japanese Twelve Animal Cycle.' Arutaigo kenkyû – Altaistic Studies 2008, Vol. 2: 1-18.
Beckwith (2009): . Princeton: Princeton University Press. .
Beckwith (2010): 'Could There Be a Korean–Japanese Linguistic Relationship Theory? Science, the Data, 	and the Alternatives. A State-of-the-Field Article.'  2010, Vol. 7, 2: 201-219.
Beckwith (2010): 'Old Chinese Loanwords in Korean.' In: Sang-Oak Lee, ed., Contemporary Korean Linguistics: International Perspectives. Seoul: Thaehaksa, 2010: 1-22.
Beckwith and Walter (2010). "On the Meaning of Old Tibetan rje-blon during the Tibetan Empire Period." Journal Asiatique 298.2: 535-548.
Beckwith (2012): Warriors of the cloisters. the central asian origins of science in the medieval world. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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 Christopher Beckwith

Études sur l'Asie centrale
Sinologue américain
Linguiste américain
Tibétologue américain
Naissance en octobre 1945
Professeur à l'université de l'Indiana à Bloomington
Lauréat du prix MacArthur
Boursier Guggenheim
Étudiant de l'université d'État de l'Ohio