中国进入20世纪后,很快就迎来了几千年封建统治的结束。曾经以传教士为媒介的西学东渐,在中国的语言研究中也产生了很大影响。汉语近代音研究就是在这样的背景下产生的。因此,汉语近代音研究从一开始就面对了传统和现代、国学与西学的矛盾。一方面,一些传统文人依然像唐人那样“非三代两汉之文不敢读”; After China entered the 20th century, it soon ushered in the end of feudal rule for thousands of years. The eastward development of western learning, once based on missionaries, also had a great influence on the study of language in China. Chinese modern sound research is produced in this context. Therefore, the study of Chinese modern sound has confronted the contradictions between tradition and modernity, Chinese learning and western learning from the very beginning. On the one hand, some traditional literati still follow the example of the Tang dynasty.