The Chinese Rhyme Tables

As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the Chinese rhyme table, this book seeks to reconstruct the ancient rhyme tables based on the extant materials and findings.

Autorentext

Pan Wenguo is a tenured professor and doctoral supervisor at East China Normal University and the honorary president of the Chinese Association for Comparative Studies between English and Chinese. He is a renowned linguist and has had a significant impact on fields of Chinese linguistics, including sinogram ontology, word formation, and rhyme divisions, and also Chinese-English comparative studies, translation theory and practice, and linguistic philosophy.

Inhalt

1. Status of the extant rhyme tables 2. The principles and methods used for reconstructing the ancient rhyme tables 3. The reconstruction of the ancient rhyme tables