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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION Seven years later, I find that my judgments and valuations are on the whole unchanged. I have however added references to poets whom I had not sufficiently read and appreciated in 1959, or who have written their best work since. Brecht and Mandelshtam come under the...

PREFACE The purpose of this book is to describe the main features of the standard variant of Chinese spoken at present in Mainland China, and alsó to point out somé of the major generál issues reflected in the process of its formation. Although the book roughly out-lines the system of the...