Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the official approval of Hanyu Pinyin, which scholars had been working on for several years, at the Fifth Session of the First National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China on February 11, 1958.
Pinyin News
news and discussions mainly related to Chinese characters and romanization
Hey, so far a post a day since your New Year’s resolutions — great stuff! (Let’s see how long you can keep that up!)
Happy birthday Hanyu Pinyin! Your existence has been a blessing for Chinese romanization…
Chris, I have a few more big posts coming. (One just about an hour from now.) But I’m guessing it’ll be about one more week before I fall back into my lazy old ways.
For the text of the resolution and other official texts of that era, see Reform of the Chinese Written Language.