Yale's Jing Tsu on the characters who modernized Chinese characters
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The Chinese Writing System
The relative durability of the chinese writing system over time, what did that contribute, do you think, to the of of political unity? I mean, western europe obviously had latin and it endured, albeit with some changes, for many centuries. For the very longest time, there was a standard written language irrespective of the spoken vernaculars. Even after the the northern and southern dynasties, even after the the la and the jin and the en, why did the idea of trin persist? Does it have something to do with the immutability of the written language? i wold say most certainly yes. You know, that writing in form is considered very
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