Abstract
The linguistic study of Chinese, for a long time much neglected, has of late become the object of considerable interest. After the rather amateurish attempts in phonetic history made by EDKINs, VOLPICELLI and KUHNERT, something more serious and scientific was for the first time produced by SCHAANK in a small article Ancient Chinese plhonetics (T'oung Pao, 1900). A great step forwards in this branch was taken when PELLIOT (in various articles in Journ. As. and T. Pao, 1911 -14) and MASPERO (Itbudes sutr la phonetique historique de la langue Annamite, BEFEO, 1912) advanced provisional systems for the reconstruction of Ancient Chinese. These attempts were followed up by myself in a comprehensive work Etudes sur la Phonologie Chiinoise (3 vol. 1915, 16, 19), based on a comparative study of modern dialects anad ancient sources, where I established a detailed system of reconstructing the language embedded in the dictionary Tsie yiin (written in the 6th c. A.D.) 1). Henri Maspero has recently published a large and highly interesting treatise on the same subject: Le dialecte de Tchangngan sous les T'ang, BEFEO 1920. As the best and most reliable results in cases like this are always gained by discussion
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