Language Atlas of China

Not to be confused with Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects.
Language Atlas of China
AuthorStephen Adolphe Wurm, Rong Li, Theo Baumann, Mei W. Lee
PublisherLongman
Publication date
1987, 1989
ISBN978-962-359-085-3
OCLC431787427

The Language Atlas of China (simplified Chinese: 中国语言地图集; traditional Chinese: 中國語言地圖集; pinyin: Zhōngguó yǔyán dìtú jí), published by Hong Kong Longman Publishing Company in two parts in 1987 and 1989, maps the distribution of both the varieties of Chinese and minority languages of China. The atlas was a collaborative effort by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, published simultaneously in the original Chinese and in English translation.[1] Endymion Wilkinson rated this joint venture "outstanding".[2]

A second edition was published by the Commercial Press in 2012.

  1. ^ Baker, Hugh D.R (1993). "Language Atlas of China". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 56 (2): 398–399. doi:10.1017/S0041977X0000598X.
  2. ^ Wilkinson, Endymion (2012). Chinese History: A New Manual. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series (Second, Revised printing March 2013 ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-674-06715-8.