Xu Chan

Chinese 12th century scholar

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Xu Chan 徐蕆 was a 12th-century scholar, who wrote a preface to the 韻補 Yunbu of 吳域 Wu Yu (circa 1100–1154) in which he first proposed the xiesheng hypothesis.

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· Wikipedia: Xu Chan

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