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By: Nazzia

Nazzia — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:32:05 +0000

Literacy can affect the progress and culture of a country. The student protests led to a massive movement in China, which later came to be known as the May Fourth Movement. It opened the access to literacy skills beyond the elite population. It influenced the trajectory of written language in China by allowing more individuals the chance to read and write in vernacular languages, later solidifying the success of the Communist Revolution.

By: Sasha Sunshine

Sasha Sunshine — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:31:08 +0000

This movement played a crucial role in the development of written language and literacy in China. Until this article, I had no knowledge about the movement. Literacy does have an effect on the development of a country. This movement was initiated with the view of moving literacy skills beyond elites in the society, and allowing more individuals the chance to read and write in vernacular languages.

By: Rajendra Prasad Kandel

Rajendra Prasad Kandel — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:26:57 +0000

Its an interesting article regarding The historical development of Chinese language. Sometimes the members of the speech community themselves include reformations or advancements in language knowingly or unknowingly but in other condition the states or the rulers legally force their people to follow the prescribed language. It depends on the necessity of bringing unity in language hence in culture and in nation. But for me language change must be in the

By: Irene Nguyen

Irene Nguyen — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:15:12 +0000

Thank you for this post. In my opinion, history alongside writing has its own process of development and revolution. In my country, throughout a long historical nation development, literacy approaches have been significantly revolutionized to help people can fully access and achieve their ability of writing and comprehensive reading. Yet, there has been some changes that seems to be inappropriate and be considered to harm the nation’s tradition identity.

By: Chi Tam Nguyen

Chi Tam Nguyen — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:53:57 +0000

I felt a bit shocked when Confucianism used to be blamed to cause weakness by Chinese who have had a long tradition and experience of this famous system of thought and behaviour. I am a huge fan of Confucianism.
It is really interesting to go through the language reforming period of Chinese – one of my must-learn language in the near future. It could be seen that the reformation is not a short-term action which can work right after it starts. It takes a lot of time and effort to come to reality. In Vietnam, a professor proposed a way to reform written Vietnamese with the purpose to reduce printing costs. However, this proposal was refused off hand because the authorities believed that it is impractical. It then received many negative critiques from the social media. And it is gone. What a pity.

By: yofa

yofa — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:32:33 +0000

This is a very interesting article as the May Fourth Movement in China is a piece of new information for me. However, this reminds me of the first day when Bahasa Indonesia was appointed as the national standardized language which was on 28th October 1928. Officially appointing Bahasa Indonesia as the national language was firstly proposed by Muhamad Yamin (a scholar in language and history) as the representative of the young Indonesians. Since then, Bahasa Indonesia has been widely used to unite all Indonesians who -almost- all speak different languages in their homes.

By: Teufeld

Teufeld — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:35:54 +0000

May 4 Movement pushed baihua to expand its influence in China, and helped people to know the importance of democracy, science and literacy. It was an importance step to help China transferring into a new literacy style, eventually Putonghua took the main position in Chinese culture till now. May 4 Movement is influential in Chinese culture and gains praise, it is worth to be remembered.

By: luwen huang

luwen huang — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:46:34 +0000

As a Chinese student, I am familiar with the history of the May Fourth Movement and its significance in promoting the change of Chinese culture. In literature, “baihua” has been popularized and replaced with obscure classical Chinese that is “wenyan”. At the same time, women were encouraged to receive an education. Many schools for women have also been established. More and more people have received education through the May Fourth Movement, which leads to the ideas of democracy are spread. After China broke away from colonial aggression through war, the government established the standard of “baihua”. Therefore, Mandarin has become the official language of China after the government establishing the standard.

By: Yongqi

Yongqi — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:00:31 +0000

Thank you for sharing the useful article for us. It has revealed that using a more accessible language plays a key role in literacy development. Just as the article mentioned that Wényán is not easy to understand for daily use in China. Instead, Báihuà which is more easy to understand is helpful for improving literacy in China. One point I want to mention is that even Wényán is not the standard language in China anymore, it is still a compulsory subject for secondary and high school students. The reason is that learning Wényán can help Chinese students to acknowledge their unique cultural identity and understand their own history better.

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 06:27:59 +0000

In the early 20th century, young students and scholars played a significant role in promoting Chinese social progress, especially in cultural and educational fields. At that time and before, literary was not affordable by the general people. As a society can not evolve without popularizing the literary and education among the vast majority of its people. Baihua reform in China helped literary development in every fields in the society especially in education among ordinary people as it was simple to learn and understand in structurally and syntactically. It also pushed a flourish in literature, newspaper, opera and movie. The reform had a significant influence in China, promoting the development on culture and greatly improving the public’s literary at that times.

By: Pramanandra Joshi

Pramanandra Joshi — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 01:34:12 +0000

This article by Geffrey Gil provides important insight about May 4 movement of China. This movement has played crucial role to develop Chinese written language and Chinese literacy. Article raises the issue that development of literacy is necessary to develop all aspects on nation. China has long history of political ups and downs. I was not familiar with history of the May 4 movement, this article provide me opportunity to familiar with history of development of literacy in China. Development of literacy is the base of development of nation, literacy movement of May 4 paved the way to develop China. Geffrey provides detailed information of May 4 movement in this article which is very important for the students of literacy.

By: Paul Desailly

Paul Desailly — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:09:26 +0000

Language reform, grammar and so on ain’t my fortes but didn’t ‘the great helmsman’ also enter the lingo issue given that he was a librarian, a poet, a little red book author, a philosopher as well as, paradoxically, a tyrannical dictator and atheistic mass killer?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3023892?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

By: Katy D

Katy D — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 20:54:39 +0000

It is fascinating to read about developmental aspects of a foreign language in the world – Chinese. This post helps me understand how a language was established, experienced ups and downs throughout history prior to taking the current form. My mother tongue – Vietnamese – actually also sufferer many ups and downs. After reading, I personally agree with the point made by the author that is the national reform should begin with literacy to maximise benefits for the whole country and minimise unexpected repercussions.