Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects

The Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects (Chinese: 汉语方言地图集; pinyin: Hànyǔ Fāngyán Dìtú Jí), edited by Cao Zhiyun and published in 2008 in three volumes, is a major attempt at documenting the geography of dialects of Chinese. Unlike the Language Atlas of China (1987), which maps the distribution of both minority languages and Chinese dialects, the new atlas is a collection of maps of various features of dialects. These features were surveyed at 930 sites throughout China over a 7-year period. The work consists of 510 maps in three volumes, respectively devoted to phonetics (205 maps), lexicon (203 maps) and grammar (102 maps).

References

• Cao, Zhiyun (2008). "Hànyǔ fāngyán dìtú jí – Qiányán" 《汉语方言地图集》前言 [Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects – Foreword] (PDF). Yǔyán jiàoxué yǔ yánjiū (2): 1–8. 
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• Kurpaska, Maria (2010). Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of "The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects". Walter de Gruyter. p. 57. ISBN 978-3-11-021914-2. 
• The Commercial Press description