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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: Facets of the History of Colloquial Chinese as Reflected in the Dialects and in Texts |
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I Chinese Dialects in Texts |
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1 Does Taiwanese Cantillation Reflect the Sound of the Tang? |
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15 | (21) |
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2 Vernacular Written Cantonese in the Twentieth Century: The Role of Cantonese Opera in Its Growth and Spread |
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36 | (23) |
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3 The Mix of Dialect and Guanhua Elements in the Wu Folk Songs Collected in Feng Menglong's Shange |
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59 | (29) |
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4 Changes in Language Use as Reflected in Shuihu zhuan Passages Embedded in the Jin Ping Mei cihua |
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88 | (16) |
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5 Wordplay in Jin Ping Mei |
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104 | (17) |
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6 Division of Old and New Shanghai Dialects: A Comparative Study of Tuhua zhinan and Huyu zhinan |
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121 | (16) |
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7 The Origin and Evolution of the Dialect Word ya `Child' |
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137 | (16) |
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II Chinese Dialects and Their History |
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8 The Demarcation of Western Mandarin and the Designation of the Chengdu Dialect as Its Standard Form in Modern China |
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153 | (20) |
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9 A Question in the Final Systems of Ming-Time Guanhua |
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173 | (6) |
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10 The Henan Xinyang Dialect of 150 Years Ago: Evidence from Dialect Islands in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui |
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179 | (15) |
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11 An Exploration of the Nature of Nanjing Mandarin in the Ming Dynasty |
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194 | (12) |
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12 Language Use in the Chinese Community of Manila in the Seventeenth Century: A Case of Occasional Diglossia? |
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206 | (14) |
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13 Frontier Mandarins and Lan Mao's Yunlue yitong in the Ming |
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220 | (28) |
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14 On the Variation of the Ru Tone in the Shanyui Dialect of Shanxi |
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248 | (18) |
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15 Tonal Features Based on Acoustic Analysis and Historical Development in Mulei Mandarin in Xinjiang |
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266 | (9) |
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| List of Contributors |
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275 | (4) |
| Index |
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