dim, 31 Jan 2010, David Mitchell skribis: > Part of the course discussed the history of the language. Our teacher noted > that classical written Chinese was a formal language of the elite, never > intended for general use. He said that there had been a breakthrough in > written > Chinese that had happened during the leadership of Chairman Mao, where the > symbols used were greatly simplified to allow a more universal access to the > written language.
This is utter nonsense. Education had been meant for everyone (both the noble or the common) ever since Confucius. Your teacher might have been brain washed by Mao's propaganda. -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
