I actually don't see problems with the dictation and phonetic script part. If I knew spoken Chinese but couldn't read the characters, nowadays I could still write it down as the pinyin and have a chance at recovering the meaning. Maybe the Author couldn't find a satisfactory match of phonetics to their own language, so a custom script seemed like a possibility. Maybe even the script has some built in mnemonics for the vocal apparatus (say O is an open mouth, A is half closed mouth, Y is open mouth with tongue down, N, R, L are tongue configurations) this would explain why the script is not a variation of an existing script and this would not be anachronistic, comparing with Hangul designed in 1440s from scratch using similar reasoning.
As for the wealth, people get rich and poor all the time, the Author may have started out rich, but lost money during travels and the manuscript was some feeble attempt to sell or preserve the knowledge back in Europe with hardly a penny in the pocket.
It's not hard to imagine a scenario under which a manuscript similar to the Voynich MS would have been created in the way described by the Chinese theory.
If only there was a trace of some specific evidence for it. I'm not even sure what that could be, lacking any obvious oriental references in the images (I know, I know, European scribe, etc., this is again an ah hoc explanation, not a piece of evidence).
Edit: I'm not sure I understand the logic behind "daiin" = "主" claim, the match as shown doesn't seem to be very convincing, but maybe I'm missing something.
As for the wealth, people get rich and poor all the time, the Author may have started out rich, but lost money during travels and the manuscript was some feeble attempt to sell or preserve the knowledge back in Europe with hardly a penny in the pocket.
It's not hard to imagine a scenario under which a manuscript similar to the Voynich MS would have been created in the way described by the Chinese theory.
If only there was a trace of some specific evidence for it. I'm not even sure what that could be, lacking any obvious oriental references in the images (I know, I know, European scribe, etc., this is again an ah hoc explanation, not a piece of evidence).
Edit: I'm not sure I understand the logic behind "daiin" = "主" claim, the match as shown doesn't seem to be very convincing, but maybe I'm missing something.