Fun fact: Luxun proposed dropping Hanzi entirely. The communist party conveniently forgets to teach that part to the youth because it doesn't fit their nationalist narrative.

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dwohnitmok an hour ago | parent | next [-]

We talked about this years ago. This is very much taught in the PRC (and I believe Taiwan for that matter). I specifically gave you examples of standardized tests that go over this material.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33312227

	▲	raincole an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Luxun's works and opinions are far, far less well known in Taiwan than in the mainland.

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canjobear 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Even more than that: Romanization was the official goal of the Communist party until Stalin talked them out of it!

https://faroutliers.com/2004/04/24/how-stalin-and-the-cultur...

	▲	contingencies 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Nice! Didn't know that. I wonder if they Romanized transliterated 'Vissarionovich' as a test case. Regardless, with pinyin they certainly did a better job than the Taiwanese! Pretty chilling evidence for the emergence of post-revolution Mandarin as newspeak, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak