Complex sentence: Zhengzhang Shangfang (郑张尚芳) published his ideas in a series of articles in Chinese provincial journals, and were not widely disseminated until some of his notes were translated into English by Laurent Sagart in 2000.
Split into simpler sentences: Zhengzhang Shangfang (郑张尚芳) published his ideas in a series of articles in Chinese provincial journals, and were not widely disseminated. Some of his notes were translated into English by Laurent Sagart in 2000.