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153. In Character
The Allusionist
Romanization of the Chinese Language
The first romanization was really brought in by western missionaries. They were also hoping that it would make it easier for people around china to learn to read and write at the beginning of the twentieth century. But then everything changed once you have the nation, right? Because as a nation, unity was absolutely ke so gradually the idea of actually abolishing the chinese script was taken off the table. If anything, they knew that they needed maybe an acelirate system like romanization,. but only to in some way supplement the written chinese language which they decided they would keep and preserve at all costs.
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