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Author here, I just discovered this was posted on HN. Please note that it's episode 2 of a "series", the first episode is https://al3x.svbtle.com/on-chinese-writing-1

Thanks for your interesting comments!

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So many authors write multi-part serial entries without actually providing bidirectional linkage between the parts. But each member of this series links to its preceding part from the first paragraph, and its following part in the final paragraph.

Thank you!

This was such an interesting read in the context of me being half-Korean and my wife being mainland Chinese, and we met in Korea, recently moved to NYC... The difference of traditional and simplified was a very real learning experience for me (especially finding subtitles for movies), and for her, experiencing american-chinese culture and history here.

Your write-up was especially fun to read because it avoided the touchy politics of mao vs chiang, mainland vs hongkong and taiwan, etc., that I've only somewhat recently been exposed to (including Korea somewhat). It seems very neutrally written and focuses more on the interesting details than the emotional tribalism that I sometimes see.

Thanks again!

I think you misspelled Taipei in paragraph 2. "National Palace Museum in Taipeh".

Or is it Taipeh in other languages? Though the blog is in English...

If we are going by Hanyu Pinyin (漢語拼音), it would be Taibei.

I'm not sure where the author is from (although it looks like he studied in Paris).

Taipeh is the German spelling of Taipei as far as I can tell.

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