The literary dialect of Xie Zhuang
谢庄的文言
Robert A. Juhl 朱乐本

Abstract 摘要
This paper presents an exhaustive analysis of the rhyming employed by the Liu Song poet Xie Zhuang (b. 421). A summary of his rhymes and finals and a reconstruction conforming to this is included. Then the phonological evolution of eight rhymes is traced in detail among the members of the Xie family, from Xie Lingyun (b. 385) to Xie Tiao (b. 464). Finally, a comparison is made with Xie Zhuang’s contemporary, Bao Zhao (also b. ca. 421), which demonstrates that Bao Zhao’s rhyming did not yet reflect certain phonological splits already found in Xie Zhuang’s rhyming.