Here’s the text of a speech by Zhou Youguang on the fiftieth anniversaries (but not to the day) of the scheme for “simplifying” Chinese characters and of the national directive on the popularization of Mandarin. I don’t share his enthusiasm … Continue reading
The People’s Daily has a nice short piece on Zhou Youguang, one of the main people behind the creation of Hanyu Pinyin. There’s a photo, too. source: Míngrén sh?zh?i: Zh?u Y?ugu?ng de sh?fáng (???????????), People’s Daily, February 5, 2006
Friday, January 13, is Zhou Youguang’s 101st birthday. Zhou is one of the main people behind the creation of Hanyu Pinyin. Remarkably, he did not become involved with language work until he was in his late forties — something I’ve … Continue reading
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