Chinese Dialect Studies
汉语方言研究
Edwin G. Pulleyblank 蒲立本

Abstract 摘要
Dialect studies rightly occupy a large place in Chinese linguistics. From a purely descriptive point of view the problem is immense, even more so when one includes not only the innumerable varieties of Hang language but also the languages of the minority people. One can only applaud the great strides tha thave been made in the last thirty or forty years in investigating and making known this vast treasure house of living data and hope that the work will go on at an even more rapid rate in future.