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8vo, pp. [245]-345 (i.e., 100 pages); contemporary stapled plain paper wrappers; wrappers loosening, staples rusty, some toning of the text; all else very good. Offprint from T'oung Pao, volume XXVIII, nos. 1-5. Chiu Bien-Ming (1891-1984) was a respected and well-known linguist from Hui'an, Fujian and was one of the pioneers in promoting the pinyin system for Chinese and Minnan dialects. He studied mathematics and linguistics at Harvard and Hamburg, and taught linguistics at the University of Singapore. "Zhou Bianming's improvement of the Amoy phonetic system basically went through two stages, resulting in two ways of marking Amoy phonetic symbols. The first stage was the 'Zhou Bianming Phonetic System,' which was his revision of the vernacular characters around 1934, mainly based on the International Phonetic Alphabet for partial modification. Basically, it was still done in a way that the tone symbols were marked on the letters, similar to the tone marking structure of vernacular characters and Tai Luo [i.e., Tawanese Romanization]. The second stage after 1949, the 'Asia Phonetic Script,' was a plan to further improve the Amoy phonetic script. Its method was similar to the Zhuang or SMLT [Simplified Modern Taiwanese] phonetic scripts that used Latin letters as the tone marking structure. At this point, the direction of the Minnan phonetic script developed by Zhou Bianming was completely decoupled from the traditional tone symbol marking form of vernacular characters" (Wikipedia).