Mashi Wentong

Mashi Wentong (Chinese: 馬氏文通; pinyin: Mǎshì Wéntōng, English: Ma's Grammar) is the first grammar of the Chinese language written by a Chinese scholar, Ma Jianzhong, who published it in 1898.

[1][2] Although the "germination of modern linguistics in China"[3] is attributed to this book, Mashi Wentong was criticized by critics such as Chen Chengze[4] and Li Jinxi[5] as imitating Western grammar and imposing the Western grammatical tradition on Chinese.

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