{"id":292,"date":"2006-02-11T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T06:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/make-traditional-chinese-characters-part-of-world-cultural-heritage-taipei-mayor\/"},"modified":"2006-02-11T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T06:21:52","slug":"make-traditional-chinese-characters-part-of-world-cultural-heritage-taipei-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/make-traditional-chinese-characters-part-of-world-cultural-heritage-taipei-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"make traditional Chinese characters part of world cultural heritage: Taipei mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (???) has urged the UN to declare traditional Chinese characters a world cultural heritage, fearing they are fading into oblivion. At a meeting with Taiwanese in Geneva, Ma said the adoption by China of simplified characters has rendered them less and less recognizable in the Chinese-speaking world. Ma said he was barred from applying to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to preserve the traditional characters because Taiwan is not a UN member.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think &#8220;fading into oblivion&#8221; is a bit strong. <\/p>\n<p>source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2006\/02\/11\/2003292514\">Ma lauds traditional script<\/a>, <em>Taipei Times<\/em>, February 11, 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (???) has urged the UN to declare traditional Chinese characters a world cultural heritage, fearing they are fading into oblivion. At a meeting with Taiwanese in Geneva, Ma said the adoption by China &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/make-traditional-chinese-characters-part-of-world-cultural-heritage-taipei-mayor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,55,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-literacy","category-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}