<div dir="ltr">The following is a truncated version of a message entitled<br>Chinese Advisory Body’s Proposals Address Divorce, Illicit Cash and Holidays<br>[...]<br><br>3. The film director Feng Xiaogang proposed selecting 50 traditional Chinese <br>characters to be used in elementary school textbooks. After the founding of <br>the People’s Republic, China adopted a simplified form of written Chinese <br>to promote literacy. Mr. Feng said reintroducing some traditional characters<br> would give pupils a better sense of China’s cultural heritage.<br><br>This received a more mixed reaction. Ideal Future wrote on a QQ news article: <br>“Traditional characters should be revived! They are a form of art in Chinese <br>culture.”<br><br>And You said: “Even though they are hard to write, the country needs to <br>teach them. I really like traditional characters.”<br><br>But Yue Zhijin pointed out: “China has 1.3 billion people and there is <br>still a lot of illiteracy. I hope people don’t allow their fondness for <br>them to encourage the restoration of traditional characters.”<br><br><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?pli=1#search/Wfierman%40indiana.edu/14beabc750ae1b26">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?pli=1#search/Wfierman%40indiana.edu/14beabc750ae1b26</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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