How to Write a Better Writing System in China

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i opens in 19 hundred with this buddhist monk who turned out not to be a monk, but a wanted fugitive. So he stole across the border and decided that he would make this work at all costs. And so he had this burning desire that hi would not die, which was to come back to china and do something for his language. The fact that the language works that way is such a fundamentally different paradime for a language.

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