{"id":4989,"date":"2011-10-20T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=4989"},"modified":"2017-03-23T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T03:54:27","slug":"zhou-youguang-on-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2011\/zhou-youguang-on-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhou Youguang on NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisa Lim had a story on National Public Radio yesterday about Zhou Youguang (&#21608;&#26377;&#20809; \/ <span class=\"py\">Zh&#333;u Y&#466;ugu&#257;ng<\/span>), who&#8217;s often referred to as the father of Pinyin. <\/p>\n<p>Most stories in the mass media about him focus on just two things, which might be summarized as &#8220;pinyin&#8221; and &#8220;wow, he&#8217;s really old.&#8221; This story, however, draws welcome notice to some some other things about him, as the title reveals: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/10\/19\/141503738\/at-105-celebrated-chinese-linguist-now-a-dissident\">At 105, Chinese Linguist Now A Government Critic<\/a>. (There&#8217;s a link to the audio version near the top of the page. Zhou can be heard in the background speaking Mandarin &#8212; though his English is excellent.)<\/p>\n<p>The article also provides a link to his blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sina.com.cn\/zhouyouguang\"><span class=\"py\">B&#462;isu&#236; xu&#233;r&#233;n Zh&#333;u Y&#466;ugu&#257;ng de b&#243;k&#232;<\/span><\/a> (&#30334;&#23681;&#23398;&#20154;&#21608;&#26377;&#20809;&#30340;&#21338;&#23458;). <\/p>\n<p>Further reading: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/zyg.html\"><em>The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts<\/em><\/a> (Zh&#333;nggu&#243; Y&#468;w&#233;n de Sh&#237;d&#224;i Y&#462;nj&#236;n \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/zyg_simp.html\">&#20013;&#22269;&#35821;&#25991;&#30340;&#26102;&#20195;&#28436;&#36827;<\/a>), available both in the original Mandarin (both simplified a traditional Hanzi versions) and in an English translation by Li-ching Chang<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/category\/zhou-youguang\/\">some posts mentioning Zhou Youguang<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hat tip to John Rohsenow. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photo of Zhou Youguang signing a book for me\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2009\/07\/zhou_youguang2.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisa Lim had a story on National Public Radio yesterday about Zhou Youguang (&#21608;&#26377;&#20809; \/ Zh&#333;u Y&#466;ugu&#257;ng), who&#8217;s often referred to as the father of Pinyin. Most stories in the mass media about him focus on just two things, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2011\/zhou-youguang-on-npr\/\">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":[12,106,28,95,32,20,19,272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-hanyu","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-romanization","category-zhou-youguang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989","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=4989"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7381,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions\/7381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}