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Li was one of the first Language'' published in 1930. In 1929 he returned to China and became a researcher at the Academia Sinica Department of Historical Linguistics. From this point on, he performed field studies of several Tai Languages (including the Zhuang people's Longzhou and Wuming dialects), while at the same time conducting deep investigations into Ancient Chinese and Tibetan . Later, Li returned to the United States and taught Chinese language and linguistics at the University Of Washington from 1949 to 1969, and then at the University Of Hawaii . In 1977 he published a comparison of Tai Languages , the crystalization of more than forty years of research. Li's first exposure to fieldwork was his study of the Mattole language in northern California . EXTERNAL LINKS
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