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To: jbe who wrote (1749)11/16/1999 1:16:00 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 3246
 
I cannot recall saying anything that is "down" on the Chinese. But I am "on the fly", and will ponder the points you raise when I return. Ciao......



To: jbe who wrote (1749)11/16/1999 4:45:00 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3246
 
1. Literacy standards are variable, and I am dubious about the claim coming from a dictatorship. But my primary skepticism has to do with the notorious difficulty of learning literary Mandarin, with all of the characters to memorize;
2. If the primary claim to fame of Lu Xun is that he wrote in the vernacular, than saying that he would be intelligible in ideograms is somewhat off point.


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