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The man who helped ’simplify’ Chinese

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iguanamon
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22 March 2012 at 11:31am | IP Logged 
I saw an interesting article on the BBC website today about Zhou Youguang, who helped invent pinyin- The man who helped 'simplify' Chinese. It's amazing how honest you can be when you're 106 years old!
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29 March 2012 at 5:51pm | IP Logged 
Thanks for posting! I really enjoyed reading the article, because Youguang has a very interesting perspective on
history, having lived through so much of it!
Can you imagine growing up with emperors, yet living in our modern-day world? What a span of time! It boggles the
mind. I wonder how he feels when he sifts through memories...
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