P'in-yin

There is no hurry about resolving the question of whether p'īn-yīn will in the future replace characters. This is absolutely the case.

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Concrete evaluations of, for example, the p'in-yin movement in China and the expansion of the [redacted] were well covered.

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The more serious non-Sinological specialists, "intelligent readers", etc. will have on their bookshelves copies of Cheng Te-k'un's "Archaeology of China" series, Chang Kwang-chih's The Archaeology of China (1st - 3rd editions), Joseph Needham's multi-volume Science and Civilization in China, etc. Can one image the authors of these three valuable publications changing horses midstream, either in succeeding volume or in succeeding editions, and adopting p'in-yin?

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Despite increasing use, over the last decade, of the mainland Chinese p'in-yin system, the Wade-Giles system remains the standard by sheer weight of accumulated publication over the last century, and by virtue of its continuing use in current and forthcoming publications in English (including Chang Kwang-chi, 1986).

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