Simplified Chinese characters

Published October 15, 2010 | By Bman

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economic problems in China during that time.

In the 1930s and 1940s, discussions on character simplification took place within the Kuomintang government, and a large number of Chinese intellectuals and writers have long maintained that character simplification would help boost literacy in China. 324 simplified characters collected by Qian Xuantong are officially introduced in 1935 as the table of 1st batch simplified character () and suspended in 1936. In many world languages, literacy has been promoted as a justification for spelling reforms.

The People’s Republic of China issued its first round of official character simplifications in two documents, the first in 1956 and the second in 1964. In the 1950s and 1960s, while confusion about simplified characters was still rampant, transitional characters that mixed simplified parts with yet-to-be simplified parts of

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