Guangming Ribao has a long piece this week on Zhou Youguang, one of the main people behind the creation of Hanyu Pinyin: Zh?u Y?ugu?ng: b?isuì x?ngchén, wénhuá cànrán (?????????????, Gu?ngmíng Rìbào, April 23, 2006). This also has lots of photos.
For autobiographical material by him in English, see A devotion that goes beyond words, from the South China Morning Post in the late 1990s.
For a selection of writings by him, see The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts (????????? Zh?ngguó y?wén de shídài y?njìn).
Happy birthday this Putonghua chauvinist!