Pinyin Tzimu Project — a Landmark Event in the History of Chinese Civilization Initiated and Supported by the CPC

Occupation: Professor of the Department of Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and Lao languages
Affiliation: Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Problemy Dalnego Vostoka

Edition

Issue 4

Pages

160-167

Abstract

The Creation of the Alphabet and words spelling of Chinese Mandarin (Pinyin tsimu project) is a landmark event in the history of Chinese civilization. It breathes new life into ancient Chinese characters. Great "dumb" − the Chinese character − for the first time since 1958 has become known to the whole world by sounds of Beijing speech. Today the two types of writing − Chinese Mandarin traditional ideographic and innovative phonographic writing, in their unity, provide the linguocultural unity of the Chinese society and the progress of science and technology of China. Millions of people in China and beyond are studying the Chinese language based on the sound letter standard of the words of Chinese Putonghua. Letter orthogramms of Chinese words provide tele- and Internet communication of hundreds of millions of Chinese. In the 20 century the first Latinized alphabet for the Chinese language was created with the leading participation of one of the founders and leaders of the CPC, Qu Qiubo, (included in the official list of "100 Greatest Figures of New China") under the influence of the experience of creating alphabets for the peoples of the USSR in 1921-26. Chinese alphabet, based on Latin letters and letter-spelling forms of Putonghua words are a huge scientific achievement of Chinese linguists. Outstanding contribution to the creation of the alphabet and letter words of Chinese Mandarin was made by a brilliant Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang (1906-2011), called the «father of pinyin zimu» or Chinese alphabet in China. The top leaders of the Communist Party of China, Mao Tsedong, Zhou Enlai, Chen Yi led the creation of the "pinyin" alphabet. The political will and wisdom of the CPC's senior leadership, combined with the creative genius of Chinese linguists, ensured the creation of a letter writing for the people of China, which was "an epochal event in the history of the development of Chinese civilization".

Keywords

100th Anniversary of CPC, civilization, Chinese language, illiteracy, hieroglyph, letter, draft pinyin, alphabet, Internet communication

Received

27.02.2021

Publication date

20.08.2021

Number of characters

20797

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GOST	Aleksakhin A. "Pinyin Tzimu Project" — a Landmark Event in the History of Chinese Civilization Initiated and Supported by the CPC // Problemy Dalnego Vostoka – 2021. – Issue 4 C. 160-167 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://pdv.jes.su/S013128120016158-4-1 (circulation date: 25.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013128120016158-4
MLA	Aleksakhin, Alexey ""Pinyin Tzimu Project" — a Landmark Event in the History of Chinese Civilization Initiated and Supported by the CPC." Problemy Dalnego Vostoka 4 (2021):160-167. DOI: 10.31857/S013128120016158-4
APA	Aleksakhin A. (2021). "Pinyin Tzimu Project" — a Landmark Event in the History of Chinese Civilization Initiated and Supported by the CPC. Problemy Dalnego Vostoka (4), pp.160-167 DOI: 10.31857/S013128120016158-4

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