China's Kingdom of Characters with Jing Tsu
Factually! with Adam Conover
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What's the Story of the Reform of the Chinese Writing System?
Isem ma standardized the romanization that we now know as pining rigt hen. He was credited with simplification, which was taking basic strokes out of characters to make them easier to learn. But it's not true: The nationalists had already proposed simplification in the 19 thirties. It can even go to a small minority of sino moslems who were persecuted during the last empire and fled across the border to curren da,. cossack song.
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