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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/reconstructing-history-chinese
 -dialects-through-foreigners-eyes/
SUMMARY:Reconstructing the history of Chinese dialects through foreigners
 ’ eyes
DESCRIPTION:\n	YIU Yuk-man Carine (Associate Professor of Humanities\, Hon
 g Kong University of Science and Technology\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19
 )\n	Chair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang (Professor of Linguistics\, Harva
 rd University)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studi
 es\n\n\n	Despite that the Chinese language has a recorded history for more
  than three thousand years\, the study of the history of different regiona
 l dialects is made possible in part by the discovery of texts mostly compi
 led by missionaries in the 19th and early 20th centuries. To facilitate th
 eir evangelical work\, the missionaries learnt the local dialects. As a re
 sult\, they published pedagogical material on the local dialects and trans
 lated the Bible into local dialects. Since the texts were excavated in the
  1990s\, efforts have been made to examine the development of the dialects
  in vocabulary\, sound and grammar as exhibited in the texts. In this talk
 \, the significance of the texts will be highlighted. Moreover\, it will b
 e shown how the scrutiny of the texts enlightens us on the changes undergo
 ne by the dialects and the internal as well as external factors that have 
 triggered these changes.
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