What's the Story of the Reform of the Chinese Writing System?

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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.

China is now one of the world’s most powerful nations. But how did its unique and formidable language shape its rise? Jing Tsu, the author of Kingdom of Characters, joins Adam to explain the history of the Chinese language, and the amazing innovations that brought it into the modern world. Check out her book at http://factuallypod.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.