The Chinese Language and How it Almost Ceased to Exist: From Beijing to Peking
117The ancient Chinese language... Are you aware that it was close to extinction? This is a story that explains the simple question; why was Beijing called Peking for so many years? What on the surface seems like a rudimentary difference in semantics between different cultures, is in fact the story of a nations struggle for the survival of its identity - it's language.
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0:00 Shi shi shi Chinese poem
0:52 Intro
2:03 The Chinese language is really really really hard
3:26 Wade Giles
4:13 Standard Chinese language?
6:27 The inefficiencies of the Chinese language
8:20 Political solutions (Marxism, Anarchism, Esperantism)
10:13 The creation of the Mandarin alphabet (Zhuyin)
15:35 How Cantonese almost became the language of China
20:03 The creation of pinyin and simplified characters
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