Is there a way to produce Chicago-style citations of material written in Chinese, Japanese, for an English-language paper using biblatex-chicago?
I want to produce a citation that looks like:
Li Wuwei 李无未, Riben Hanyu yinyun xue shi 日本汉语音韵学史 (History of the study of Chinese phonology in Japan) (Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan, 2011)
Right now, I'm able to produce a reference that looks like this using biblatex-chicago:
Li Wuwei [李无未], Riben Hanyu yinyun xue shi, 日本汉语音韵学史 [History of the study of Chinese phonology in Japan] (Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan, 2011)
My .bib entry looks like:
@book{Liwuwei2011,
Author = {{Li Wuwei}}, %Author as institution not individual
nameaddon = {李无未},
Publisher = {Shangwu yinshuguan},
address = {Beijing},
Title = {Riben Hanyu yinyun xue shi},
titleaddon = {日本汉语音韵学史},
usere = {History of the study of Chinese phonology in Japan},
Year = {2011}}
The problem is not the square brackets around the Chinese name and title, but
(1) the fact that the name now is not parsed as a name (if it were, it would be listed in the footnote as "Wuwei Li," and in the final bibliography as "Li, Wuwei," which is incorrect), but treated as one word. This means I cannot make the style cite the reference simply as
Li, Riben
but only
Li Wuwei, Riben
in subsequent citations. Dominic Yu (http://blyt.net/blog/2009/11/bibtex-and-chinese-names.html) kindly showed me how to solve this with bibtex. I wonder if there is a solution for biblatex-chicago?
The second problem is:
(2) The comma
Riben Hanyu yinyun xue shi, 日本汉语音韵学史
between the transcribed title and the original title. Is there a way I can get rid of that in the reference?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Best Answer
For problem (1), the
nameaddon
field can hold the CJK name for only a single author. This approach is no good for works by multiple authors and name lists in other fields, such aseditor
. One way around this is to reserve the name affix for the CJK name:and modify the name formatting directives. This is somewhat awkward and you'll have to characterize "real" name affixes in order to properly format names like "Robert Griffin III" and "Lon Chaney Junior". A rudimentary
\ifnameaffix
test is used in the example below.For problem (2), using the
titleaddon
field for the CJK title is probably the way to go forbiblatex-chicago
styles. Punctuation between the title and the title add-on is tangled up in a bunch of different formats, drivers and macros. One possible way out is to use\nopunct
in the title formatting directives.A few notes:
firstinits
, but it is straightforward to make them so.biblatex.def
. So it should work for a variety of styles.biblatex-chicago
. They have little use in other styles.