赵贤德先生的专书《常州籍语言学家与中国语文现代化》分别描述了常州一地百年来出现的四个杰出语言学家即吴稚晖、赵元任、瞿秋白和周有光在中国语文现代化即语言的统一化、文字的简便化、语体的口语化、表音的字母化方面做出的突出贡献。这是语文现代化历史上写一个地方语言学家与中国语文现代化关系的一部专书,也是一部力作,为研究中国语文现代化提供了新的视角,值得肯定。 Mr. Zhao Xiande’s book “Linguists in Changzhou and Modernization of Chinese Language” respectively describes the unification of the four prominent linguists in China, namely, Wu Zhihui, Zhao Yuanren, Qu Qiubai and Zhou Youguang in the centennial of Chinese history, namely language modernization in China , Simplification of writing, colloquialism of the style, and alphabetization of phonograms. This is a special book written by a local linguist and the modernization of Chinese language in the history of Chinese language modernization. It is also a masterpiece that provides a new perspective for the study of Chinese language modernization and deserves recognition.