Digital Language Atlas of China

This dataset displays regions of major language groupings in China. Produced by the Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network, Griffith University, Nathan, Q 4111, Australia, under the direction of Lawrence W. Crissman. Spatial data were vectorized from the Language Atlas of China, Hong Kong: Longman Group - Far East, (1987) under a copyright agreement with the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The GIS version of the atlas was produced from the original colour separation plates with the cooperation of the original cartographer, Theo Bauman (Dept of Linguistics, Australia National University).