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The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Less than 200 years ago, the nation was in a state of ine and its survival was in question. A movement arose to fight off foreign interference to bring china back from the dead. The key to that movement was what the four eyed sage saw in the clouds, language. Chinese characters can be complex and difficult to write. They also aren't fanetic. To learn any character, you have to memorize it. In order to do that, you had to practise writing them. And jing knows first hand how hard it is to do that. When i was growing up, we would spend two, three hours every night writing each out,. like 20 to forty times, depending