The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

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If possible, could you give me one concrete alignment example: one passage from the Shennong Bencao Jing, the corresponding SPS paragraph, and how the symbols/words correspond?

Stolfi mainly shows the recipe for You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., which corresponds to the latest You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. recipe.

Just to mention, this might be off-topic, but Chinese has many different dialects, like Cantonese, Minnan, and Mandarin

It could also be Vietnamese...

I would especially like to know: Is there a stable mapping from VMS symbols to Chinese sounds?

Well, I don’t see them. I tried to find at least some connection between the sound of the character and daiin. I see a strange pattern in the fact that daiin, kaiin, and laiin are the same character, but aiin is a different one.
Well, by the way, I’d object to the inconsistencies like kaiin and laiin. If he wrote this text from memory and, as I believe he should have, understood it, then he should have clearly distinguished the words and avoided any confusion. If, while reading the corresponding character, the dictator says laiin, our European will immediately understand: “Ah, well, this is probably the same as daiin. I’ll probably write it down as daiin". 
If he wrote these words differently, he probably believed they were different words, which could mean he didn’t understand what he was writing. I don’t think it will be easy to confuse a character that appears several times in one recipe.
Of course, I’m not denying (and I’ve demonstrated this myself) that phonetic transcription of a language can be full of errors, but in the case of Chinese theory, this can turn into a huge assumption…