Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects

[6] The metropolitan district of each of 36 cities – provincial capitals plus Suzhou, Xiamen and Meizhou – was included as a survey site.

[7] At these sites tone sandhi phenomena were to be investigated, and a much longer character list would be used.

[3][4] The 46 fieldworkers, 34 of whom held doctoral degrees in Chinese dialectology, were assigned to areas they were already familiar with.

[7] This was in line with the usual practice in dialect geography elsewhere in the world of using nonmobile, older, rural males (NORMs), as such informants are considered more likely to reflect the traditional speech of the area.

[17] A digital version of the atlas is in preparation, to include additional maps and the full survey data.