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.
replyWe 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.
replyLuxun's works and opinions are far, far less well known in Taiwan than in the mainland.
replyEven more than that: Romanization was the official goal of the Communist party until Stalin talked them out of it!
replyhttps://faroutliers.com/2004/04/24/how-stalin-and-the-cultur...
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!
replyPretty chilling evidence for the emergence of post-revolution Mandarin as newspeak, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak