Preface
前言

Kong Jiangping 孔江平

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Professor William Shi Yuan Wang initiated a symposium named “The Ancestry of Chinese Language” at the City University of Hong Kong in July 1994. A monograph of Journal of Chinese Linguistics, whose number is 8 in the Monograph Series, included 9 papers and 6 comments and was published after the symposium. In 2016, Prof. Wang told me that he was willing to hold the second symposium of “The Ancestry of Chinese Language”, because the study on the ancestry of Chinese language had undergone a lot of progress after more than 20 years’ development in this research field. Since I was a visiting lecture professor of the College of Chinese Language and Culture (CCLC) of Jinan University, I talked to Prof. Shao Yi, the Dean of CCLC and with Prof. Wang’s consent, after which we finally decided to hold the second symposium named “The Ancestry of Chinese Language and People”, sponsored by the CCLC of Jinan University in July 2017, Guangzhou. Jinan University is one of the top 100 universities under the Key Construction Project of the 21st Century of China. CCLC has four departments: the departments of Chinese, Applied Linguistics, Chinese International Education and Pre-university Education, and two academic institutes: the Overseas Chinese Education Research Institute including 6 research centers which are the Chinese Testing Center, Chinese Textbook Research Center, Chinese Teacher Certificate Center, Overseas Chinese Research Center, Chinese Education Service Center and the Editorial Office of TCSOL Studies, and the Institute of Applied Linguistics consisting of three centers which are Center for Ecology of Languages and Cultures, Center for Language Competence Development and Center for Corpus Development.
The second symposium of “Ancestry of Chinese Language and People” was held on May 30-31, 2017. From the name we can see that the symposium topic, in which the study on the people is added, is a little different with the first one, because the study on the relationship between genetics of different ethnos and languages had developed significantly over the last ten years. More than 20 international scholars attended the symposium and finally eleven papers were contributed to the Monograph of JCL by fourteen international scholars. The papers in this monograph can be divided into three categories: the study on the ancestry of Chinese language in historical linguistics, the study on the ancestry of Chinese language and people by new methods, and the study on the distributions of languages and peoples immigrating from the central to the south of China at different times in the Chinese history.
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