"What About Chinese Dialects? — Part II: A Tribute to Two Heroic Scholars Through A Children's Play"   About 2,000 years ago, an Imperial Court Scholar named  Yang Xiong  was so eager to talk to local officials and soldiers from all over the country. Two millenniums later, a young Swedish scholar named  Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren  went and roamed all over China. What do both of these stories tell us about Chinese dialects?