Shuo yin 說音 [On Sound].
71 folding leaves. Small 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, orig. stitching. Shanghai: Zhonghua shuju, 1936.
Revised and enlarged (zengding 增訂) edition of this work on phonology. The book explains the traditional Chinese field of phonological studies for a contemporary audience. Jiang Qian expresses a kind of Buddhist universalist view of phonology as the description of human speech sound regardless of language. He writes that his own book was born not only from older literature, but from his experience with dialect differences in China, the different character readings in Korea and Japan, the phonetic script of English, his work in... More