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While the eminent scholar Chao Yuen Ren is well-known for conducting the first extensive solo dialect survey in China on the Wú dialects in southeastern Jiāngsū and northern Zhèjiāng (1927) as well as for supervising several large-scale dialect field investigations subsequently in Huīzhōu (1934),Jiāngxī and Húnán (1935),and Húběi (1936),little is known about his second solo field work in Guǎngdōng and Guǎngxī (1928-1929 winter).No wonder.Results of all surveys except this one were published one after another,although actually his Cantonese Primer (1945,character text 1947) and his Phonetics of the Yao Folk Songs (1930) are also products of this field trip.In his article about his field work on the Chinese dialects (Chao 1975) there are two short paragraphs describing this field trip but not covering the linguistic contents.Since I have the good fortune of access to the unpublished materials of this Liǎng-Yuè field trip,the focus of my paper will be on his 1928-1929 survey.These Liǎng-Yuè materials not only constitute precious records for the individual dialects investigated,they also serve to illustrate at least two more important aspects of his field work.One is the fine and meticulous description of the gradation of sounds,which offers a reconstruction of the process of sound change in general.Another is the standard these records provide for evaluating other dialect materials,especially some C19 data recorded by scholars and missionaries on dialects of similar localities.My paper will concentrate on these two aspects.