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* {{cite journal | title=''Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present'' | first=Doug | last=Hitch | journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society | year=2010 | volume=130 | issue=4 | pages=654–658 | url=http://www.ynlc.ca/ynlc/staff/hitch/review_of_Beckwith.pdf }}

I suggest it should be removed as fringe. Similarly, although there has been a long-standing debate about whether the Chinese invention of writing was completely independent of the much earlier Middle-Eastern development, Beckwith's suggested IE transmission of the idea of writing seems farfetched, given that the Indo-Europeans in the area had no writing at that time. [[User talk:Kanguole|Kanguole]] 01:48, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

:A number of the Beckwith-pushing edits came from a new account, and part of me wondered if one of Beckwith's students had joined WP just to push his ideas. I personally believe thisthere is more to the Ancient China &ndash; Indo-European connection than we are aware of, but I'm not convinced it's as Beckwith describes it, and in any case you are of course correct that his views are fringe ones. <small><b><span style="border:1px solid;background:#030303"><span style="color:white">&nbsp;White&nbsp;Whirlwind&nbsp;</span>[[User talk:White_whirlwind|<span style="color:#030303;background-color:white;">&nbsp;咨&nbsp;</span>]]</span></b></small> 08:39, 2 January 2015 (UTC)